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Dove sono le viti? Trovale e fissale.

Dove sono le viti? Trovale e fissale.
Where are the screws? Find them and secure them.
From Lesson 122:Commands with attached pronouns (fallo, dimmi)·Italian

Breakdown of Dove sono le viti? Trovale e fissale.

essere
to be
e
and
dove
where
trovare
to find
la vite
the screw
fissare
to secure

Questions & Answers about Dove sono le viti? Trovale e fissale.

Why is the article le used with viti? Doesn't an -i ending usually mean a word is masculine plural?
Viti is the plural of la vite (the screw). It belongs to the group of nouns that end in -e in the singular and change to -i in the plural. Since it's a feminine noun, it takes the feminine plural article le.
How are the words trovale and fissale formed?
When you give a positive command to someone informally (the tu form), you must attach object pronouns directly to the end of the verb to make one single word. Trovale is trova (find) + le (them). Fissale is fissa (secure) + le. We use the pronoun le because it refers back to the feminine plural noun, le viti.
Why do the verbs end in -a (trova, fissa) if this is the tu form?
For regular -are verbs like trovare and fissare, the informal affirmative command (the imperative) ends in -a. Even though the standard present tense is tu trovi (you find), the command form is just trova! (find!).
How do I pronounce trovale and fissale? Does adding the pronoun change where the emphasis goes?
The emphasis stays exactly where it was on the original verb. You stress the first syllable: TRÒ-va-le and FÌS-sa-le. Adding a pronoun to the end of an imperative doesn't shift the spoken stress of the word.

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