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Dopo aver trovato un gettone vicino al chiosco, la ragazza è salita sulla giostra.

Dopo aver trovato un gettone vicino al chiosco, la ragazza è salita sulla giostra.
After finding a token near the kiosk, the girl got on the ride.
From Lesson 158:Past infinitive with dopo (dopo aver..., dopo essere...)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Dopo aver trovato un gettone vicino al chiosco, la ragazza è salita sulla giostra.

How does dopo aver trovato translate, and why don't we just say dopo ha trovato?
In Italian, to express "after doing something," you must use dopo followed by the past infinitive. It translates literally to "after having found." Notice that the helper verb avere drops its final "e" to become aver, which makes it flow much better when speaking!
Why do we use aver for the first verb, but è for the second one?
The helper verb you use for the past infinitive is the exact same one you would use for the regular past tense. Because trovare (to find) takes avere, we use aver trovato. But salire (to go up / get on) is a verb of motion, so it takes essere, which is why we see è salita.
Why does salita end in an "a"?
Whenever a past tense uses the helper verb essere, the past participle must agree in gender and number with the subject. Since la ragazza is feminine and singular, the default word salito changes to salita.
Why is it vicino al chiosco instead of just vicino il chiosco?
The Italian expression for "near" is actually vicino a. When you put the preposition a together with the definite article il (the) for chiosco, they merge into the combined word al.

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