Breakdown of Hanno organizzato una festa la settimana scorsa.
una
a / an (feminine)
avere
to have
la festa
party
la settimana
week
Questions & Answers about Hanno organizzato una festa la settimana scorsa.
How does hanno organizzato translate to "they organized"?
In Italian, the most common past tense (called the passato prossimo) is made of two parts. The first part is a helper verb, which here is hanno (they have). The second part is the past participle organizzato (organized). So, the sentence literally means "they have organized".
How do we form the past participle organizzato?
Organizzato comes from the regular verb organizzare (to organize). For regular verbs that end in -are, you simply drop the -are and add -ato to the end of the word to talk about the past.
Where is the word for "they" in this sentence?
Italian usually leaves out subject pronouns like loro (they) because the verb form already tells us who is doing the action. The helper verb hanno specifically means "they have", making the subject perfectly clear without needing to say it.
Why is it la settimana scorsa and why does scorsa end in an "a"?