Learn Italian: Vanno agli stadi nuovi. - They go to the new stadiums.

Vanno agli stadi nuovi.

They go to the new stadiums.

Breakdown of Vanno agli stadi nuovi.

to go / to be fine / to work out

to / at

Questions & Answers about Vanno agli stadi nuovi.

Why do we use agli instead of ai in this sentence?

agli is a combination of the preposition a (to) and the plural article gli (the). We use gli instead of i for masculine plural nouns that start with an 's' followed by a consonant, just like stadi (stadiums).

I see stadi means 'stadiums'. Why doesn't it end in an 's'?

Italian doesn't use 's' to make words plural. Masculine nouns that end in '-o' in the singular, like stadio, change their ending to '-i' in the plural, becoming stadi.

Why does the adjective nuovi come after the noun?

In Italian, descriptive adjectives like nuovi (new) usually come after the noun they describe, which is the opposite of English. Notice how it also ends in '-i' to match the masculine plural noun stadi.

Where is the word for 'they' in this sentence?

The verb vanno already means 'they go'. In Italian, subject pronouns like loro (they) are usually dropped because the verb itself makes it clear who is doing the action.