Learn Italian: I bambini sono vivaci, sto rincorrendoli ovunque. - The children are energetic, I am chasing them everywhere.

I bambini sono vivaci, sto rincorrendoli ovunque.

The children are energetic, I am chasing them everywhere.

Breakdown of I bambini sono vivaci, sto rincorrendoli ovunque.

to stay, to feel, to be

them (masculine direct object)

Questions & Answers about I bambini sono vivaci, sto rincorrendoli ovunque.

Why is li attached to the end of rincorrendo instead of being placed before the verb?

In the present progressive tense (stare + gerund), you have two choices for where to put an object pronoun like li (them). You can attach it to the end of the gerund, making sto rincorrendoli, or you can place it before the conjugated verb stare, making li sto rincorrendo. Both are correct and mean the exact same thing!

When adding li to the end of rincorrendo, do I need to drop any letters?

No! Unlike infinitives (where you drop the final -e, as in mangiare becoming mangiarlo), gerunds keep all their letters. You simply stick the pronoun directly onto the end of the -ando or -endo ending: rincorrendo + li = rincorrendoli.

I bambini is masculine plural, but would vivaci change if it were describing a feminine group like le bambine?

No, it would stay exactly the same! Vivaci comes from the singular adjective vivace (lively or energetic). Adjectives that end in -e in the singular change to -i in the plural for both masculine and feminine nouns. So, you would say both i bambini sono vivaci and le bambine sono vivaci.