Learn Italian: Questo film è proprio bello. - This movie is really beautiful.

Questo film è proprio bello.

This movie is really beautiful.

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Questions & Answers about Questo film è proprio bello.

If film doesn't end in an -o, how do we know to use the masculine questo?

Foreign loanwords that end in a consonant, like film, computer, or bar, are almost always treated as masculine words in Italian.

Doesn't proprio usually mean 'one's own'?

It does! But in conversational Italian, proprio is also very commonly used to mean 'really,' 'truly,' or 'exactly.' Here, it works just like davvero to emphasize how good the movie is.

Can I put proprio anywhere in the sentence?

When using proprio to mean 'really,' you place it directly before the adjective you are emphasizing. Since it emphasizes bello here, it goes right in front of it.

Why is it bello here, but sometimes I see bel film?

When the adjective comes after the noun and the verb, you use the full form: bello. It only shrinks down to bel when it is placed directly in front of a masculine singular noun (like un bel film).