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Quanti scatoloni per la soffitta ha imballato? Ne ho imballati due.

Quanti scatoloni per la soffitta ha imballato? Ne ho imballati due.
How many large boxes for the attic did you pack? I packed two of them.
From Lesson 153:Past agreement with 'ne' (ne ho presi)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Quanti scatoloni per la soffitta ha imballato? Ne ho imballati due.

Why is it imballati in the second sentence instead of imballato?
When you use the pronoun ne (meaning "of them") in a past tense like the passato prossimo, the past participle has to agree with the noun you are replacing. Here, ne replaces the masculine plural scatoloni, so the ending of imballato changes to the masculine plural -i.
The translation says "did you pack", but the Italian uses ha. Doesn't ha mean "he/she has"?
Yes, but it is also used for the formal "you" (Lei). The speaker is being polite. If they were talking to a friend, they would use the informal "you" and ask Quanti scatoloni... hai imballato?
I learned that "box" is scatola. Why is it scatoloni here?
Italian uses suffixes to change the size or feeling of a word. By adding the suffix -one to scatola, it becomes "a large box" (pluralized here as -oni). Notice that adding this suffix also changes the word from feminine to masculine!
Why does the number due go at the very end of the sentence?
When you use ne to say how many of something you have, the number usually goes after the verb. The pronoun ne always goes before the conjugated verb (ho), leaving the quantity (due) to sit at the end of the phrase.

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