Breakdown of Avranno un giornale da leggere quando saranno arrivati in stazione.
essere
to be
un
a / an (masculine)
il giornale
the newspaper
la stazione
the station
avere
to have
in
in / made of (material)
quando
when
leggere
to read
arrivare
to arrive
da
to (purpose/necessity after a noun)
Questions & Answers about Avranno un giornale da leggere quando saranno arrivati in stazione.
Why does the Italian sentence use saranno arrivati (will have arrived) when the English translation just says "arrive"?
In English, we often use the present tense after words like "when" to talk about the future. In Italian, if one future action must be completed before another can start, you use the Future Perfect (Futuro Anteriore) for the first action. Because they must arrive before they can read the newspaper, Italian strictly uses saranno arrivati after quando.
Why does the Future Perfect here use saranno (essere) instead of avranno (avere)?
Just like in the regular past tense (Passato Prossimo), verbs of motion that show a change of location, like arrivare (to arrive), take essere as their helping verb. You form the Future Perfect by putting the helping verb into the future tense (saranno) and adding the past participle (arrivati).
Why does the past participle end in "-i" (arrivati)?
Why do we say un giornale da leggere instead of using the preposition per?
When an infinitive verb is attached directly to a noun to describe its purpose or what needs to be done with it, Italian uses the preposition da. So, un giornale da leggere essentially means "a newspaper to be read".
Why is it in stazione and not alla stazione?
Both are actually correct and commonly used in Italian! However, with certain everyday public locations like stazione (station), banca (bank), or farmacia (pharmacy), Italians frequently use the preposition in without a definite article.
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