Learn Italian: Terrò una dieta sana per il mio peso. - I will keep a healthy diet for my weight.

Terrò una dieta sana per il mio peso.

I will keep a healthy diet for my weight.

Breakdown of Terrò una dieta sana per il mio peso.

for / in order to / because of

la dieta

diet

Questions & Answers about Terrò una dieta sana per il mio peso.

Why is the verb terrò and not "tenerò"?

Terrò is the first-person future form of tenere (to keep/hold). Tenere is an irregular verb in the future tense: instead of using a regular stem, it drops a vowel and doubles the "r", making the stem terr-. Add the -ò ending for "I", and you get terrò (I will keep).

Doesn't tenere usually mean "to hold"?

Yes, its most common meanings are "to hold" and "to keep". Just like in English where you can "keep a diet", in Italian you use tenere una dieta or seguire una dieta (to follow a diet).

Why do we need the article il in il mio peso?

In Italian, you almost always need a definite article (like il or la) right before a possessive word (like mio). The main exception is for singular family members, like mio padre (my father). Since peso (weight) isn't a family member, you must include il.

Why is sana placed after dieta?

In Italian, adjectives that describe facts or categories, like sano (healthy), almost always go after the noun they describe. It changes to sana here because it has to match dieta, which is a feminine singular noun.