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L'anno prossimo, loro avranno molto successo.

L'anno prossimo, loro avranno molto successo.
Next year, they will have a lot of success.
From Lesson 112:The future tense of to be and to have (sarò, avrò)·Italian

Breakdown of L'anno prossimo, loro avranno molto successo.

loro
they
l'anno
the year
avere
to have
molto
a lot of / much
prossimo
next
il successo
success

Questions & Answers about L'anno prossimo, loro avranno molto successo.

How do we form the verb avranno?
Avranno means "they will have." It is the future tense (futuro semplice) of avere (to have) for the loro (they) form. Notice that avere has an irregular stem in the future tense: instead of keeping the "e" to make "averanno", it drops it to become avr-. Then we add the standard "they" future ending -anno to get avranno.
Why is the adjective after the noun in L'anno prossimo? Can I say Il prossimo anno?
In Italian, adjectives typically come after the noun they describe. So, "the year next" (l'anno prossimo) is the standard, most natural way to say "next year." You will sometimes hear il prossimo anno, which is grammatically correct, but l'anno prossimo is much more common in everyday speech.
Is it mandatory to use the pronoun loro in this sentence?
No, you can easily drop it and just say, "L'anno prossimo, avranno molto successo." The verb ending -anno in avranno already makes it perfectly clear that the subject is "they." Including loro just adds a slight emphasis.
In English we often say "they will be successful." Why use avranno (they will have) instead of saranno (they will be)?
While English uses the verb "to be" plus an adjective ("to be successful"), Italian uses the verb avere (to have) plus the noun successo (success). Just like being hungry is "having hunger" in Italian, being successful is "having success" (avere successo).
Does the word molto change its ending here?
Yes, it must agree with the noun it describes. Here, molto means "a lot of" or "much," and it describes the noun successo (success). Because successo is a masculine singular noun, molto stays in its default masculine singular form. If it were describing a feminine plural noun like "things" (cose), it would become molte.

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