Learn Hardcore Italian: Il vincitore sceglie la prossima mossa.

Breakdown of Il vincitore sceglie la prossima mossa.

Why does the sentence start with Il?

Il is the masculine singular definite article, usually meaning the.

Here it goes with vincitore because vincitore is:

So:

If the noun were feminine, you would use la instead:

What does vincitore mean grammatically?

Vincitore is a masculine singular noun meaning winner.

It comes from the verb vincere = to win.

A useful pair is:

In many contexts, Italian uses the masculine form as the general/default form if the gender is not being specified.

Why is there no word for he or she before sceglie?

Italian often leaves out subject pronouns when they are not needed. This is called a pro-drop language.

So instead of saying:

you could also say:

But in your sentence, il vincitore already tells us who is doing the action, so no separate pronoun is needed.

This is very normal in Italian.