Breakdown of Ieri era proprio una giornataccia.
essere
to be
una
a / an (feminine)
ieri
yesterday
proprio
just, exactly (intensifier)
Questions & Answers about Ieri era proprio una giornataccia.
How does the suffix -accia change the meaning of giornata here?
The suffix -accia (and its masculine equivalent -accio) is a pejorative suffix. It adds a negative, bad, or ugly quality to the noun it attaches to. By dropping the final vowel of giornata (day) and adding -accia, it becomes giornataccia (a bad or awful day).
Why use giornata as the base word instead of giorno?
Why is era (imperfect tense) used here instead of è stata (passato prossimo)?
The imperfect tense (l'imperfetto) is used here to describe a state of being or to set a scene in the past. If you said è stata, it would also be correct but would frame the bad day as a single completed event rather than describing the ongoing negative vibe of the day.
I've seen proprio mean 'one's own'. What does it mean in this sentence?