Word
L'uomo vende la macchina vecchia.
Meaning
The man sells the old car.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about L'uomo vende la macchina vecchia.
Why does the verb vendere end in -e here?
Why is the order macchina vecchia instead of vecchia macchina?
In Italian, descriptive adjectives like vecchia (old) almost always come right after the noun they describe, unlike in English. So literally, the sentence says "the car old".
Why does vecchia end in -a?
Adjectives must match the gender and number of the noun they describe. Because macchina is a feminine singular noun, the standard dictionary form of the adjective (vecchio) changes its ending to -a to become vecchia.