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Giugno e luglio sono mesi caldi.

Giugno e luglio sono mesi caldi.
June and July are hot months.
From Lesson 52:Months of the year·Italian

Breakdown of Giugno e luglio sono mesi caldi.

essere
to be
e
and
il mese
the month
caldo
hot
il giugno
June
il luglio
July

Questions & Answers about Giugno e luglio sono mesi caldi.

Why aren't giugno and luglio capitalized like they are in English?
In Italian, the names of the months (and days of the week) are written in lowercase unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.
The word for "months" is mesi. What is the singular form?
The singular word for "month" is mese. In Italian, nouns that end in -e in the singular change their ending to -i in the plural, regardless of whether they are masculine or feminine.
Why does the adjective caldi come after mesi instead of before it?
In Italian, descriptive adjectives like caldi (hot) almost always come after the noun they describe. Notice how caldi also ends in -i to match the masculine plural noun mesi.
I remember sono meaning "I am". Why is it used here for "are"?
The verb essere (to be) is a bit unique because it uses the exact same word for "I am" (io sono) and "they are" (loro sono). Here, the subject is Giugno e luglio (they), so sono translates to "are".

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