Breakdown of Ogni torre è visitata da molti turisti.
essere
to be
molto
a lot of / much
visitare
to visit
ogni
every
da
by (agent of a passive verb)
la torre
the tower
il turista
the tourist
Questions & Answers about Ogni torre è visitata da molti turisti.
Why does the past participle end in -a (visitata)?
In the passive voice, the past participle acts like an adjective and must agree in gender and number with the subject of the sentence. Since torre (tower) is a feminine singular noun, the past participle visitato changes to visitata.
We usually learn that da means "from", so why is it translated as "by" here?
In passive sentences, the person or thing doing the action (the agent) is always introduced by the preposition da. While da often means "from" or "since" in other contexts, in the passive voice it translates to "by".
Torre ends in -e, and ogni doesn't change its ending. How do we know torre is feminine to make visitata agree?
Why does turisti end in -i if the singular is turista?
Nouns ending in -ista (like turista, dentista, giornalista) are identical for masculine and feminine in the singular. However, in the plural, they have regular gender endings: -isti for masculine or mixed groups, and -iste for exclusively feminine groups. Here, molti turisti refers to a mixed group.
If I wanted to say "all the towers" instead of "every tower", how would the passive verb change?
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