Word
Sapevo che il suo atteggiamento era pessimo.
Meaning
I knew that his attitude was terrible.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Sapevo che il suo atteggiamento era pessimo.
essere
to be
suo
his/her/Your
sapere
to know
pessimo
terrible/very bad
Questions & Answers about Sapevo che il suo atteggiamento era pessimo.
What is the word pessimo and how does it relate to adjectives like buono and cattivo?
Pessimo means 'very bad' or 'terrible'. It is the irregular superlative of cattivo (bad). Just like buono (good) has the special 'very good' form ottimo, cattivo has pessimo. You use it instead of saying molto cattivo.
If the lesson is about buono, how would we say 'a good attitude' using the phonetic rules we are learning?
Why are sapevo and era in the imperfect tense rather than the passato prossimo?
The imperfect tense is used for ongoing states or descriptions in the past. Knowing something (sapevo) and an attitude being terrible (era) describe ongoing conditions in the past, rather than single, completed events with a clear start and end.
Does il suo specifically mean 'his' in Italian?