Breakdown of La festa importante è a dicembre.
essere
to be
importante
important
a
to / at
la festa
the party
il dicembre
December
Questions & Answers about La festa importante è a dicembre.
Why do we use a to mean "in" December?
In Italian, to say something happens in a specific month, you can use either the preposition a or in. Both a dicembre and in dicembre are perfectly correct and mean the exact same thing.
Why isn't dicembre capitalized?
Since festa is feminine, why doesn't the adjective end in -a like importanta?
While many Italian adjectives change their ending to -a to match feminine nouns, importante belongs to a group of adjectives that end in -e. These adjectives use the exact same -e ending for both masculine and feminine singular nouns.
Why is the word order festa importante instead of importante festa?
In Italian, descriptive adjectives almost always come after the noun they describe. So, instead of saying the English equivalent of "important party", you say the equivalent of "party important" (festa importante).
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