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Unitevi ai cittadini attivi che puliscono il parco.

Unitevi ai cittadini attivi che puliscono il parco.
Join the active citizens who are cleaning the park.
From Lesson 124:Relative pronoun (che)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Unitevi ai cittadini attivi che puliscono il parco.

How is the word unitevi formed?
It comes from the reflexive verb unirsi (to join / to unite oneself). When giving an affirmative command to a group of people (the voi form), you take the regular verb form unite and attach the reflexive pronoun vi directly to the end of it, making unitevi.
Why do we say ai cittadini instead of just joining i cittadini?
In Italian, the verb unirsi requires the preposition a to connect it to the group or cause you are joining (literally, "unite yourselves to"). When the preposition a is followed by the plural masculine article i (the), they merge together to form ai.
Does che mean "who" here? I thought it meant "that" or "what".
Yes, it means "who" in this sentence! Che is a very flexible relative pronoun used to connect clauses. It can translate to "who", "whom", "that", or "which" in English, depending on whether it is referring back to a person, an animal, or an object.
Why is the verb puliscono (they clean) spelled with an "-isc-" in the middle?
The base verb is pulire (to clean). It belongs to a common group of -ire verbs that insert -isc- into the stem for the "I", "you", "he/she", and "they" forms in the present tense. This makes the conjugation puliscono rather than just "pulono".

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