Breakdown of Questa è la ventesima partita del campionato.
essere
to be
questa
this (feminine)
la partita
the match
del
of the; than the (di + il)
il campionato
the championship
ventesimo
twentieth
Questions & Answers about Questa è la ventesima partita del campionato.
How do we get ventesima from the number venti (twenty)?
To form ordinal numbers from 11 upwards, you drop the final vowel of the normal number and add the suffix -esimo. So, venti drops the -i to become vent-, plus -esimo makes ventesimo. Here it changes its ending to -a to agree with the feminine noun partita.
Why does the sentence start with Questa (feminine) before we even know we are talking about a partita?
Why do we use del campionato instead of just di campionato for 'of the championship'?
Italian generally requires a definite article before specific nouns like campionato. When the preposition di (of) is followed by the article il (the), they combine to form the articulated preposition del (of the).
Could I use gioco instead of partita to mean 'match'?
Not in this context. Partita specifically refers to a sports match or a single round of a game (like a football match or a game of chess). Gioco refers to a game in a broader sense, like a board game or the abstract concept of playing.
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