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L'illusionista riesce a trovare il coniglio nella scatola.

L'illusionista riesce a trovare il coniglio nella scatola.
The illusionist manages to find the rabbit in the box.
From Lesson 148:Linking verbs with 'a' (a + infinitive)·Italian

Questions & Answers about L'illusionista riesce a trovare il coniglio nella scatola.

Why is there an a between riesce and trovare?
This is the core rule of your current lesson! The verb riuscire (to manage to) requires the preposition a when linking to a second verb in its infinitive form (like trovare). You cannot just say riesce trovare.
What is the infinitive form of riesce?
It comes from riuscire (to manage / succeed). It is irregular, but if you remember the verb uscire (to go out) from earlier lessons, it follows the exact same pattern: uscire becomes esce (he/she goes out), so riuscire becomes riesce (he/she manages to).
Why use nella instead of just in?
Nella is a combined word made from the preposition in (in) and the definite article la (the). Because you are saying in the box and scatola is a feminine singular noun, you must combine in + la to make nella.
L'illusionista ends in -a. Is this illusionist definitely a woman?
Not necessarily. Words ending in -ista (often professions like dentista or turista) use the same -a ending for both masculine and feminine in the singular form. Because the article L' drops its vowel, we actually cannot tell the gender of the illusionist from this sentence alone!

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