Breakdown of Per trovare la sua indipendenza, lo lascio viaggiare da solo.
suo
his/her/Your
trovare
to find
per
for / in order to / because of
da
from, at (someone's place) / by (oneself), on one's own
solo
alone, lonely
lasciare
to leave (an object)
viaggiare
to travel
lo
him/it (direct object)
l'indipendenza
independence
Questions & Answers about Per trovare la sua indipendenza, lo lascio viaggiare da solo.
Why do we use the direct object pronoun lo instead of gli (to him) for "I let him"?
In the permissive construction (lasciare + infinitive), the person who is allowed to do the action is the direct object of lasciare. Since "him" is the direct object, we use lo rather than the indirect object pronoun gli.
Could I attach the pronoun lo to the infinitive, like lascio viaggiarlo?
Why does the sentence start with Per trovare instead of just Trovare to mean "To find"?
When an English sentence uses "to" plus a verb to mean "in order to" or to show the purpose of an action, Italian requires per followed by the infinitive.
Why use da solo instead of just saying solo?
Why does it say la sua indipendenza? Doesn't sua already mean "his"?
Yes, but Italian almost always requires a definite article (here, la) before a possessive adjective (sua). The main exception is for singular family members (like mio padre), but since indipendenza is a regular noun, it needs the article.
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