Learn Italian: Ho visto molti film. - I saw a lot of movies.

Ho visto molti film.

I saw a lot of movies.

Breakdown of Ho visto molti film.

Questions & Answers about Ho visto molti film.

What verb does visto come from?

It comes from vedere (to see). Because it's an irregular verb, its past participle doesn't follow the regular -uto pattern. Instead, you just have to memorize that vedere becomes visto.

The translation says "movies" (plural), but why doesn't the word film change?

When Italian borrows foreign words that end in a consonant, like film, computer, or bar, they are "invariable." This means they don't change their endings in the plural. You can tell it's plural here because of the word molti (many) right before it.

Why does this sentence use molti instead of just molto?

When molto is used to describe a noun (meaning "many" or "a lot of"), it acts like a regular adjective and must match the gender and number of that noun. Since we are talking about multiple movies, film is masculine plural here, so molto changes to molti.

Why is ho visto translated as "I saw" instead of "I have seen"?

Italian uses this past tense (the passato prossimo) for almost all everyday completed past actions. While ho visto literally translates to "I have seen," in English it is usually much more natural to say "I saw."