Breakdown of La mia pagella del semestre scorso era brutta.
essere
to be
di
of, from
mio
my
scorso
last / previous
Questions & Answers about La mia pagella del semestre scorso era brutta.
This lesson is about buono, so why doesn't brutta (bad) change its form like buono does?
Why do we need la before mia pagella? Doesn't mia already mean 'my'?
In Italian, you almost always need a definite article (like il or la) before a possessive adjective. You literally say 'the my report card'. The only major exception you've learned so far is for singular family members, like mia madre (my mother), which drop the article.
Why use era instead of è stata for 'was'?
Era is the imperfetto (imperfect) tense of essere (to be). We use it here because we are describing an ongoing state or condition in the past (what the report card was like), rather than a specific, sudden, or completed event.
Why does 'from last semester' translate to del semestre scorso?