Word
Questo albergo è meno caro del tuo, ma è il più rumoroso.
Meaning
This hotel is less expensive than yours, but it is the noisiest.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Questo albergo è meno caro del tuo, ma è il più rumoroso.
essere
to be
questo
this (masculine)
ma
but
l'albergo
the hotel (m)
Questions & Answers about Questo albergo è meno caro del tuo, ma è il più rumoroso.
How do we form "the noisiest" (il più rumoroso) in Italian?
In Italian, to say "the most" or "the least" of an adjective, you use the definite article (il, la, i, or le) followed by più (more) or meno (less), and then the adjective. Since albergo (hotel) is masculine singular, we use il più rumoroso. This is called the relative superlative.
Why is it del tuo for "than yours"? Where does the del come from?
When comparing two things using meno (less) or più (more), we usually use the preposition di to mean "than". Here, "yours" is the possessive pronoun il tuo (referring to the masculine singular albergo). When you combine di + il, it forms the combined word del.
Why doesn't the second part of the sentence use a pronoun like "it"?
In Italian, subject pronouns like "it" are usually dropped because the verb (è) already tells us what the subject is. The phrase il più rumoroso stands perfectly on its own to mean "the noisiest one", so we don't need to repeat the word albergo.
Could I write quest'albergo instead of questo albergo?
Yes! Because albergo starts with a vowel, you can drop the final letter of questo and use an apostrophe to make it quest'albergo. Both forms are correct, but the apostrophe version often sounds smoother in spoken Italian.