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Le voglio finire subito, le attività.

Le voglio finire subito, le attività.
I want to finish them immediately, the activities.
From Lesson 254:Invariable plurals for accented nouns (le città, i caffè)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Le voglio finire subito, le attività.

How do we know if attività is singular or plural here?
Nouns ending in an accented vowel, like attività, are invariable. This means they do not change their ending in the plural. You can tell it is plural here because it uses the feminine plural article le. If it were singular, it would use the apostrophe: l'attività.
Why does the sentence use both the pronoun le and the noun le attività?
This is a very common structure in conversational Italian. The speaker uses le to represent the object early in the sentence, and then adds le attività at the end after a comma to clarify exactly what is being finished. It emphasizes the action while making sure the listener knows what the object is.
Why is the object pronoun le placed before voglio instead of being attached to finire?
When using a modal verb like volere with an infinitive verb like finire, you have two choices for where to put the object pronoun. You can put it before the conjugated verb (le voglio finire) or drop the final -e of the infinitive and attach the pronoun to the end (voglio finirle). Both are perfectly correct!
Are nouns like attività usually feminine?
Yes! Nouns ending in -tà, such as città, università, and attività, are almost always feminine in Italian.

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