Word
Costruirai un albergo ecologico in montagna?
Meaning
Will you build an ecological hotel in the mountains?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Costruirai un albergo ecologico in montagna?
un
a / an (masculine)
la montagna
the mountain
l'albergo
the hotel
in
in / made of (material)
Questions & Answers about Costruirai un albergo ecologico in montagna?
Since costruire uses -isc- in the present tense (costruisco), why isn't that included in the future tense verb costruirai?
The -isc- pattern is only used in the present tense and the imperative (command) forms. The future tense is much simpler: you just take the infinitive (costruire), drop the final -e, and add the regular future endings. For tu (you), the ending is -ai, giving us costruirai.
Why does the sentence say in montagna instead of using an article like nelle montagne (in the mountains)?
In Italian, certain common destinations take the preposition in without a definite article. Just like you say in banca (to/at the bank) or in farmacia (to/at the pharmacy), you use in montagna to mean going to or being in the mountains. Notice that Italian uses the singular word montagna to talk about the mountains as a general setting.
If I wanted to talk about building multiple ecological hotels, how would I make albergo ecologico plural?