Learn Italian: Questa è la scelta migliore.

Questa è la scelta migliore.

This is the best choice.

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Questions & Answers about Questa è la scelta migliore.

Doesn't migliore mean "better"? Why does it translate to "best" here?

In Italian, you create "the best" (the relative superlative) by adding a definite article (il, la, i, or le) to the comparative word. So while migliore means "better", combining it with the article to make la ... migliore changes the meaning to "the best".

Can I say la scelta più buona instead?

Yes, you technically can. However, migliore is the special, irregular comparative form of buono (good) and is much more common. Just like in English we say "best" instead of "most good", Italians strongly prefer migliore.

If the noun was masculine, would migliore change to miglioro?

No. Because migliore ends in -e, it is used for both masculine and feminine singular nouns. However, it does change in the plural: "the best choices" would be le scelte migliori.

Why do we use Questa instead of Questo at the very beginning of the sentence?

Questa (this) is a demonstrative pronoun here. It refers directly to la scelta (the choice). Because scelta is a feminine noun, the pronoun pointing to it must also be feminine, even though it comes first in the sentence.