Questions & Answers about La donna è bella e la casa è grande.
How would this sentence change if we used the indefinite articles (un or una) from this lesson?
Why do two of the e's in this sentence have an accent mark (è) while the middle one doesn't?
In Italian, the accent mark completely changes the word's meaning. è (with the accent) is the verb meaning 'is'. The word e (without the accent) simply means 'and'.
Is è the same verb we use when saying 'I am'?
Both donna and casa are feminine. Why does bella end in -a to match, but grande ends in -e?
Italian has two main groups of describing words (adjectives). Words like bello change their ending to -o for masculine and -a for feminine. However, grande belongs to a second group of adjectives that always end in -e for singular words, regardless of whether the noun is masculine or feminine. You will never see the word 'granda'!