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Avremo poche provviste nel bosco, ma dovremo resistere.

Avremo poche provviste nel bosco, ma dovremo resistere.
We will have few supplies in the woods, but we will have to endure.
From Lesson 188:Concessive conjunctions (sebbene, benché, nonostante)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Avremo poche provviste nel bosco, ma dovremo resistere.

This lesson is about words like sebbene that take the subjunctive. Why doesn't ma take the subjunctive here?
Ma (but) is a coordinating conjunction, meaning it simply links two independent statements together, so it uses the normal indicative tense. Words like sebbene (although) and benché (even though) are subordinating conjunctions: they introduce a dependent clause of concession, which triggers the subjunctive in Italian.
Why are the verbs spelled avremo and dovremo instead of "averemo" and "doveremo"?
Both avere (to have) and dovere (must/to have to) are irregular in the future tense. Instead of keeping the vowel before the ending like regular verbs do, they drop it, giving us the shortened stems avr- and dovr- before adding the standard noi ending -emo.
Why is it poche instead of poco?
When poco is used as an adjective meaning "few" or "little", it must agree in gender and number with the noun it describes. Because provviste (supplies) is feminine plural, the adjective changes to its feminine plural form, poche.
Could we just say in bosco instead of nel bosco?
Usually no, because you need the word "the" to say "in the woods". Nel is an articulated preposition created by merging the preposition in with the masculine singular article il (in + il = nel).

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