Learn Italian: La sorella è intelligente e molto bella. - The sister is intelligent and very beautiful.

La sorella è intelligente e molto bella.

The sister is intelligent and very beautiful.

Breakdown of La sorella è intelligente e molto bella.

Questions & Answers about La sorella è intelligente e molto bella.

In the sentence we have both è and e. What is the difference?

è with an accent means 'is' (from the verb essere, to be). e without an accent is the coordinating conjunction meaning 'and'. The accent is crucial because it completely changes the meaning of the word!

Since sorella is feminine, why doesn't intelligente end in -a?

In Italian, some adjectives naturally end in -e in the singular, like intelligente (intelligent) or verde (green). These adjectives do not change for masculine or feminine; they use the same -e ending for both. They only change to -i in the plural.

Why is it molto bella and not molta bella to match the feminine noun?

Here, molto means 'very' and acts as an adverb describing the adjective bella. When molto is used as an adverb, it never changes its ending. It only changes endings to match gender and number when it means 'a lot of' and describes a noun.

Could the conjunction e change to ed in this sentence?