Breakdown of In estate vengono nel nostro albergo.
l'albergo
the hotel
in
in / made of (material)
nostro
our
venire
to come
l'estate
summer
nel
in the (in + il) / while / upon (doing something)
Questions & Answers about In estate vengono nel nostro albergo.
Why is it in estate instead of using the word for "the" like nell'estate?
In Italian, we usually just use in or di before a season without the word for "the" (the definite article). So, "in summer" is simply in estate (or d'estate).
Where is the word for "they" in this sentence?
It is built right into the verb! Vengono means "they come" (from the irregular verb venire). In Italian, you usually drop subject pronouns like loro (they) because the verb's ending already tells you who is doing the action.
Why do we use nel here if the English translation says "to our"? Doesn't nel mean "in the"?
Yes, nel is a combination of in and il (in the). In English we say we are going "to" a hotel, but in Italian, verbs of movement often use the preposition in for specific places like hotels, banks, and mountains.
I learned that possessives need the word for "the" before them, like il nostro. Where did the il go here?
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