Word
Hanno preso troppe decisioni senza di me.
Meaning
They made too many decisions without me.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Hanno preso troppe decisioni senza di me.
troppo
too, too much, too many
avere
to have
di
of, from
prendere
to take
Questions & Answers about Hanno preso troppe decisioni senza di me.
Why does the Italian sentence use preso (taken) instead of a word for "made"?
Preso is the irregular past participle of prendere (to take). In Italian, you do not "make" a decision; you "take" one (prendere una decisione). Since we are using the past tense here, "they made" becomes hanno preso (literally "they have taken").
Why is it troppe and not troppo or troppi?
Wait, if decisioni ends in -i, how do we know it is feminine?
Singular Italian words that end in -sione or -zione (like la decisione) are almost always feminine. Remember that nouns ending in -e in the singular change to -i in the plural, regardless of their gender. You can clearly spot its feminine gender in this sentence thanks to the matching adjective troppe.
Why is there a di in senza di me? Doesn't senza already mean "without"?