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Per tradizione, come si festeggia il matrimonio qui?
Meaning
By tradition, how does one celebrate a wedding here?
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Breakdown of Per tradizione, come si festeggia il matrimonio qui?
qui
here
come
how
per
for / in order to / because of
festeggiare
to celebrate
Questions & Answers about Per tradizione, come si festeggia il matrimonio qui?
Who is doing the celebrating in si festeggia?
Why is the verb festeggia in the singular form?
When the impersonal si is followed by a direct object, the verb has to agree with that object. Because il matrimonio (the wedding) is singular, we use the singular verb festeggia. If the object were plural, like i matrimoni (the weddings), the verb would change to the plural form: si festeggiano.
I thought matrimonio meant 'marriage'. Can it also mean 'wedding'?
Why is the preposition per used in per tradizione?
Per tradizione is a set phrase that means 'by tradition' or 'out of tradition'. Italian prepositions often don't translate word-for-word into English, so it is best to learn this as a single vocabulary chunk. You could also replace the whole phrase with the adverb tradizionalmente (traditionally).