Learn Italian: Noi riceviamo una lettera importante.

Noi riceviamo una lettera importante.

We receive an important letter.

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Questions & Answers about Noi riceviamo una lettera importante.

How do we form the "we" form for -ere verbs like ricevere?

To say "we do something", you take off the infinitive ending (-ere) and add -iamo. So ricevere (to receive) becomes riceviamo. The great news is that -iamo is the "we" ending for all regular verbs, whether they end in -are, -ere, or -ire!

Could I just say riceviamo una lettera importante without noi?

Yes, absolutely! In Italian, the verb ending (-iamo) already tells us the subject is "we", so you can usually drop the pronoun noi. Including it here just puts a little more emphasis on the fact that we are the ones receiving it.

The word lettera is feminine, so shouldn't the adjective be importanta?

Not all Italian adjectives end in -o or -a. Importante belongs to a group of adjectives that end in -e in the singular. These adjectives don't change between masculine and feminine! They just change their -e to an -i when they become plural (so "important letters" would be lettere importanti).

Why does importante come after una lettera instead of before it?