Breakdown of È stata una decisione intelligente.
Questions & Answers about È stata una decisione intelligente.
Because è is the verb form is. The accent distinguishes it from e, which means and.
In standard Italian, the accent is kept even at the beginning of a sentence and even on a capital letter, so È is correct.
È stata is the passato prossimo of essere.
It is formed with:
- the present tense of the auxiliary essere: è
- the past participle: stata
So this is the normal spoken way to say that something was in the past.