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Il testo è difficile. Non lo capisco.

Il testo è difficile. Non lo capisco.
The text is difficult. I do not understand it.
From Lesson 73:Third-person direct object pronouns (lo, la, li, le)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Il testo è difficile. Non lo capisco.

Why is it lo capisco instead of capisco lo?
In English, we say "I understand it", putting the pronoun after the verb. In Italian, direct object pronouns like lo (it/him) must go before the conjugated verb.
Why do we use lo to mean "it" here?
The pronoun lo replaces a masculine singular noun, which in this case is il testo (the text). If you were talking about a feminine noun instead, like la frase (the sentence), you would use la: Non la capisco.
Where does the pronoun go when the sentence is negative?
It gets sandwiched right between non and the verb. The order is always non + pronoun + verb, which gives us Non lo capisco.
Why is the "I" form of the verb capisco?
Capire (to understand) is an -ire verb, but it belongs to a very common group that inserts -isc- into the word before the final ending for the I, you, he/she/it, and they forms.

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