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Se vuoi montare la televisione, fallo adesso!

Se vuoi montare la televisione, fallo adesso!
If you want to assemble the television, do it now!
From Lesson 122:Commands with attached pronouns (fallo, dimmi)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Se vuoi montare la televisione, fallo adesso!

Why is it fallo instead of falla since la televisione is feminine?
In this sentence, the lo in fallo doesn't replace just the noun la televisione. Instead, it refers to the entire action of assembling the television (montare la televisione). When a pronoun replaces a whole idea or action rather than a specific noun, Italian always uses the default masculine singular lo.
How exactly is the word fallo formed?
It is a combination of the informal command for fare (to do), which is fa', and the direct object pronoun lo (it). When attaching a pronoun to a short, one-syllable command like fa', va', or di', the first consonant of the pronoun doubles. That is why fa' plus lo becomes fallo.
Why doesn't the pronoun attach to vuoi or montare here?
The sentence actually has two separate parts. The first part is the condition (Se vuoi montare la televisione). The second part is the command to do that action now (fallo adesso). The pronoun lo is attached to the command fa' because it is telling the person to 'do' the action.
If I wanted to say 'assemble it', how would I attach the pronoun to montare?
You would say montarla. When attaching a pronoun to an infinitive verb like montare, you drop the final -e before adding the pronoun. Notice that we use the feminine la here because it directly replaces the feminine noun la televisione, unlike fallo which replaces the whole idea.

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