Word
L'acqua fredda è nella bottiglia.
Meaning
The cold water is in the bottle.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of L'acqua fredda è nella bottiglia.
essere
to be
freddo
cold
l'acqua
the water (f)
in
in / made of (material)
Questions & Answers about L'acqua fredda è nella bottiglia.
Why do we use nella instead of just in?
nella combines the preposition in with the definite article la. We use la because bottiglia is a feminine singular noun. By combining them, nella literally means "in the".
Why is the adjective fredda placed after acqua?
In Italian, descriptive adjectives for things like temperature, color, or shape usually come right after the noun they describe. Notice that fredda ends in -a to match the feminine singular noun acqua.
Why is it L'acqua with an apostrophe instead of La acqua?
Acqua is a feminine word, so its word for "the" is normally la. But because acqua starts with a vowel, the a in la is dropped and replaced with an apostrophe to make the words flow together easily when speaking.
Why does è have an accent mark?
The accent mark tells us this is the verb meaning "is". It is very important to include it because without the accent, the word e just means "and".