Breakdown of La domenica è il settimo giorno della settimana.
essere
to be
di
of, from
il giorno
day
la domenica
Sunday
la settimana
week
settimo
seventh
Questions & Answers about La domenica è il settimo giorno della settimana.
How do you form settimo from the number seven?
The Italian word for seven is sette. For ordinal numbers (first to tenth), you drop the final vowel of the normal number and add -imo. So sette becomes settim- + -o = settimo. Because it describes giorno (a masculine word), it keeps the -o ending.
Why is it la domenica (feminine) but il settimo giorno (masculine)?
Why do we need La before domenica? Doesn't that mean "The Sunday"?
Yes, it literally means "The Sunday". In Italian, when you talk about a day of the week in a general sense—like stating a fact about Sundays or saying you do something every Sunday—you use the definite article (il or la). If you were just talking about an upcoming Sunday, you would leave it out (for example, a domenica for "see you on Sunday").
How is della formed in della settimana?
Della means "of the". It is a combined word made by merging the preposition di (of) and the definite article la (the). We use la here because settimana (week) is a feminine word.
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