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Potresti diminuire lo stress con lo sport.

Potresti diminuire lo stress con lo sport.
You could decrease stress with sport.
From Lesson 117:Giving advice (potresti, dovresti)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Potresti diminuire lo stress con lo sport.

Why use potresti here instead of puoi?
Potresti is the conditional form meaning "you could". We use it here instead of the present tense puoi ("you can") to make the suggestion softer and more polite. It is the best way to give friendly advice in Italian.
Why is diminuire not conjugated?
Because it follows potresti, which is a modal (or helper) verb. Just like in English we say "you could decrease" rather than "you could decreased", in Italian you only conjugate the helper verb and leave the second verb in its infinitive (dictionary) form.
Why are we using the article lo for both stress and sport?
Both of these words start with an "s" followed by another consonant ("s+t" and "s+p"). For masculine words starting with this combination, Italian requires the article lo instead of the usual il.
Since stress and sport are English words, how would they look in the plural?
They do not change at all! Foreign words adopted into Italian keep the same spelling in the plural. You simply change the article to show there is more than one, for example changing lo sport to gli sport.

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