Breakdown of I dopocena in spiaggia sono indimenticabili.
essere
to be
in
in / made of (material)
la spiaggia
the beach
indimenticabile
unforgettable
il dopocena
the after-dinner
Questions & Answers about I dopocena in spiaggia sono indimenticabili.
Why is the plural of dopocena just dopocena and not dopocene?
Dopocena is a compound noun made of dopo (after) and the feminine noun cena (dinner). When a compound word is formed from an adverb/preposition plus a noun, and the new word takes a different gender than the original noun, it stays invariable in the plural. To make it plural, you only change the article to i.
Since cena is feminine, why does the combined word dopocena become masculine?
Why do we use in spiaggia instead of sulla spiaggia for "on the beach"?
In Italian, many common locations use the preposition in without an article to describe being there for a typical activity, much like saying "in school" or "in bed" in English. While sulla spiaggia is grammatically fine (literally "on the sand/beach"), in spiaggia is the most natural way to say you are spending time at the beach.
How is the word indimenticabili built?
It is constructed almost exactly like its English translation "unforgettable": it combines the negative prefix in- (un-), the verb root from dimenticare (to forget), and the suffix -abile (-able). Because it describes the plural subject i dopocena, the singular adjective indimenticabile changes its ending to -i.
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