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La facciata sarà rovinata dall'inquinamento.

La facciata sarà rovinata dall'inquinamento.
The facade will be ruined by the pollution.
From Lesson 203:Passive voice in simple tenses (essere + da)·Italian

Questions & Answers about La facciata sarà rovinata dall'inquinamento.

Why do we use sarà here instead of è?
This sentence is in the future tense ("will be"). In the passive voice, the auxiliary verb essere (to be) carries the tense. So, we use the third-person future form sarà combined with the past participle to mean "will be ruined".
Why does rovinata end in -a?
In passive sentences built with essere, the past participle must agree in gender and number with the subject. Because the subject receiving the action, la facciata (the facade), is feminine and singular, the participle changes from rovinato to rovinata.
Why is "by the pollution" translated with dall'?
In the passive voice, the agent (the person or thing actually doing the action) is always introduced by the preposition da (by). Here, it combines with the definite article l' (because inquinamento starts with a vowel) to form the combined word dall'.
Can I use the verb venire to form the passive voice in this sentence?
Yes! In simple tenses like the future, you can use venire (to come) instead of essere as the auxiliary verb. Saying La facciata verrà rovinata dall'inquinamento is perfectly correct and very common in everyday spoken Italian.

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