Questo telefono è nuovo e questa sedia è vecchia.

Questions & Answers about Questo telefono è nuovo e questa sedia è vecchia.

Why is it questo in the first half but questa in the second half?
In Italian, the word for "this" changes to match the gender of the noun it points to. Telefono (phone) is masculine, so we use questo. Sedia (chair) is feminine, so we use questa.
Do adjectives like nuovo and vecchia also have to match the noun?
Exactly. Descriptive adjectives change their endings just like questo and questa do. Since telefono is masculine, we use nuovo (ending in -o). Because sedia is feminine, we use vecchia (ending in -a) instead of vecchio.
Why is there an accent mark on the verb è?
È (with the accent) means "is". You need the accent mark to tell it apart from e (without the accent), which means "and". You actually see both in this exact sentence: telefono è (phone is) nuovo e (and) questa sedia...
In this sentence, are questo and questa acting as adjectives or pronouns?
Here, they are demonstrative adjectives because they sit directly next to the nouns they describe (questo telefono, questa sedia). If we left out the nouns and just said Questo è nuovo (This is new), it would be a pronoun.

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