Word
Vado dal tredicesimo cliente della giornata.
Meaning
I am going to the thirteenth client of the day.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Vado dal tredicesimo cliente della giornata.
andare
to go / to be fine / to work out
del
of the; than the (di + il)
dal
from the; to/at the (da + il)
il cliente
the customer
Questions & Answers about Vado dal tredicesimo cliente della giornata.
How is tredicesimo formed from the number thirteen (tredici)?
To form ordinal numbers from 11 upwards, you take the regular number, drop its final vowel, and add the suffix -esimo. For tredici (thirteen), you drop the final -i and add -esimo, giving you tredicesimo.
Why does tredicesimo end in -o when cliente ends in -e?
Ordinal numbers act like regular adjectives and must agree with the noun they describe in gender and number. Cliente is a noun that ends in -e for both masculine and feminine. However, the preposition dal (da + il) tells us this specific client is masculine, so tredicesimo takes the masculine singular ending -o.
Why does the sentence use dal instead of al to say "to the"?
Why does the sentence use giornata instead of giorno for "day"?