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La classe ha deciso qualcosa di importante.

La classe ha deciso qualcosa di importante.
The class has decided something important.
From Lesson 242:Singular agreement for collective nouns (la gente, il gruppo)·Italian

Questions & Answers about La classe ha deciso qualcosa di importante.

Why is the verb ha deciso in the singular when the class is made up of many students?
In Italian, collective nouns—words that represent a group of people, like la classe, la famiglia, or la gente—always take a strict singular verb. Even though a class contains many students, the grammatical subject la classe is singular, so it must use the singular verb ha.
La classe is feminine. Why is the past participle deciso instead of decisa?
The verb decidere (to decide) uses avere as its helping verb in the past tense. When a verb takes avere, its past participle does not change to match the subject. It stays in the default masculine singular form (deciso). It would only agree with the subject if the helping verb were essere.
Why is there a di between qualcosa and importante?
Whenever you use an adjective to describe an indefinite pronoun like qualcosa (something) or niente (nothing), you must link them with the preposition di. You cannot say qualcosa importante; it always has to be qualcosa di importante.
Is the adjective importante masculine or feminine here?
After qualcosa di, adjectives are always kept in their default masculine singular form. The word importante ends in an -e for both masculine and feminine anyway, but if you used an adjective that ends in -o or -a, such as nuovo (new), it would have to be qualcosa di nuovo.

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