La questione riguarda una posizione che dobbiamo considerare.

In Italian, nouns usually need an article more often than in English. Here, la questione means the issue / the matter and it is the subject of the sentence.

So:

• la questione = the issue
• questione by itself would usually sound incomplete in a normal sentence like this

Italian often uses articles where English might be a little more flexible.

Riguarda is from the verb riguardare.

In this sentence, it means:

• concerns
• involves
• has to do with
• sometimes regards

So La questione riguarda... means The issue concerns... or The matter involves...

Grammar-wise:

• riguarda = he/she/it concerns
• the subject is la questione, which is singular, so the verb is singular too

Because the subject is la questione, which is singular.

Breakdown:

• la questione = singular
• therefore riguarda = singular verb form

If the subject were plural, you would need a plural verb:

• Le questioni riguardano... = The issues concern...

Literally, una posizione means a position. But in Italian, just like in English, posizione can have different meanings depending on context.

Possible meanings include:

• a physical position
• a role or post
• a standpoint
• an opinion or stance

In this sentence, it most likely means something like:

• a position
• a stance
• a standpoint

So it is probably not about physical location, but about an idea, role, or point of view that must be considered.

Una is the indefinite article, meaning a / an. It introduces something non-specific:

• una posizione = a position

If you said la posizione, it would mean the position, referring to a specific position already known from context.

So the sentence presents it as one position among possible others, not as an already identified one.

Here che is a relative pronoun meaning that / which.

It connects una posizione to the rest of the clause:

• una posizione che dobbiamo considerare
• a position that we must consider

So che refers back to posizione.

It is introducing extra information about that noun.

Because here the relative pronoun is the direct object of considerare.

In other words:

• dobbiamo considerare [una posizione]
• we must consider [a position]

When no preposition is needed, Italian normally uses che.

You usually use cui after a preposition, for example:

• la posizione di cui parliamo = the position we are talking about
• la persona a cui scrivo = the person I am writing to

So in your sentence, che is the correct choice.

Because che already carries that function.

In English, we say:

• a position that we must consider

We do not say:

• a position that we must consider it

Italian works the same way here:

• una posizione che dobbiamo considerare
• not una posizione che la dobbiamo considerare in standard usage here

So che stands for the position inside the relative clause.

Dobbiamo considerare means we must consider or we have to consider.

• dobbiamo = we must / we have to
• considerare = to consider

This structure is very common in Italian:

• dovere + infinitive

Examples:

• devo studiare = I must study
• dobbiamo partire = we have to leave

If you said consideriamo, that would simply mean we consider or let's consider, depending on context. That is a different meaning.

So dobbiamo considerare adds the idea of necessity or obligation.

Because it follows dobbiamo, which is a conjugated form of dovere.

After modal verbs like these, Italian uses the infinitive:

• potere
  • infinitive = can
• volere
  • infinitive = want to
• dovere
  • infinitive = must / have to

So:

• dobbiamo considerare = we must consider

This is exactly parallel to English must consider.

It can mean either, depending on context.

So dobbiamo considerare can be understood as:

• we must consider
• we have to consider

In many real situations, the difference is not very important. Italian dovere often covers both ideas.

Yes, it sounds fairly neutral-to-formal, especially because of words like:

• questione
• riguarda
• posizione
• considerare

This is the kind of sentence you might see in:

• business writing
• academic discussion
• legal or administrative language
• formal spoken discussion

It is not unnatural in everyday Italian, but it is a bit more formal than very casual speech.

Yes, but the given order is the most natural and standard.

Current structure:

• La questione = subject
• riguarda = verb
• una posizione che dobbiamo considerare = object + relative clause

Italian does allow some flexibility, but changing the order may sound marked or stylistically different. For a learner, the original order is the safest and most neutral one.

Yes. Depending on context, riguardare can mean:

• to concern
• to pertain to
• to affect
• sometimes to look at again in more literal contexts, though that is less common in sentences like this

In your sentence, the meaning is clearly to concern / to involve.

So here:

• La questione riguarda... = The issue concerns...

It breaks down like this:

• La questione = subject
• riguarda = main verb
• una posizione = direct object of riguarda
• che dobbiamo considerare = relative clause describing posizione

So the pattern is:

[Subject] + [verb] + [noun] + [relative clause]

More literally:

• The issue concerns a position
• that we must consider

That is why the sentence feels long but is actually built in a very regular way.