Learn Italian: La gente capirà il problema globale? - Will people understand the global problem?

La gente capirà il problema globale?

Will people understand the global problem?

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Questions & Answers about La gente capirà il problema globale?

Why is the verb capirà in the singular form when it translates to 'people will understand'?

In Italian, la gente (people) is a singular feminine noun. You can think of it like 'the crowd' or 'the population' in English. Because the noun is grammatically singular, it takes the third-person singular verb form capirà instead of the plural capiranno.

How do we form the future tense for an '-ire' verb like capire?

For regular -ire verbs in the future tense, you simply drop the final -e from the infinitive and add the future endings. For the third-person singular (lui/lei), the ending is -à, which gives us capirà. Notice that unlike -are verbs (which change their 'a' to an 'e'), -ire verbs keep their i in the stem.

In the present tense, capire is an '-isc-' verb (capisco, capisce). Does it use '-isc-' in the future tense too?

No, it doesn't! The tricky -isc- pattern is only used in the present tense (and the imperative command form). For the future tense, all regular -ire verbs just use their normal infinitive stem. That is why it is capirà and not something like capiscirà.

Why does problema use the masculine article il even though it ends in '-a'?