Learn Italian: Il coro vuole riposare. - The choir wants to rest.

Il coro vuole riposare.

The choir wants to rest.

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Questions & Answers about Il coro vuole riposare.

Why is the verb wants "vuole" in the singular form when a choir is made up of many people?

In English, we sometimes treat collective nouns as plural, but in Italian, words like il coro (the choir), la famiglia (the family), and la gente (people) are strictly singular. Because il coro is a single entity grammatically, it must take the third-person singular verb vuole instead of the plural vogliono.

Is there a preposition missing between "vuole" and "riposare"?

No preposition is needed! Volere is a modal verb, similar to dovere (must) and potere (can). When a modal verb is followed directly by another action, that second verb stays in its infinitive form like riposare, with no prepositions like a or di in between.

I usually see "riposarsi" for resting. Why is it just "riposare" here without the reflexive pronoun?

Both riposare and the reflexive riposarsi are commonly used to mean to rest in Italian. They are essentially interchangeable in everyday conversation, so saying il coro vuole riposarsi would also be perfectly correct and mean the exact same thing.