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Impegnati per la comunità che ami!

Impegnati per la comunità che ami!
Commit yourself to the community that you love!
From Lesson 124:Relative pronoun (che)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Impegnati per la comunità che ami!

How is the word impegnati formed?
It comes from the reflexive verb impegnarsi (to commit oneself / to strive). When giving an affirmative informal command (telling "you" to do something), you take the regular tu command form impegna and attach the reflexive pronoun ti directly to the end, creating one single word: impegnati.
Could I put the ti before the verb instead, and say ti impegna?
Not for an affirmative command! In normal statements you put the pronoun before the verb (like tu ti impegni for "you commit yourself"). However, for affirmative informal commands, pronouns must always be attached to the very end of the verb.
Why do we use per (for) instead of a (to) after impegnati?
While in English you "commit to a cause", Italian uses the preposition per (for) with the verb impegnarsi in this context. You are literally telling someone to "commit yourself for the community".
Why is there an accent mark on the end of comunità?
The accent tells you to put your spoken stress on that final syllable. As a handy rule, feminine nouns ending in an accented vowel like -tà don't change their spelling in the plural. If you wanted to say "the communities", it would simply be le comunità.

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