Breakdown of Mio zio fa una foto a un panorama mozzafiato.
un
a / an (masculine)
una
a / an (feminine)
lo zio
the uncle
mio
my
fare
to do / to make
la foto
the photo
a
to / at
il panorama
the view
mozzafiato
breathtaking
Questions & Answers about Mio zio fa una foto a un panorama mozzafiato.
Since this lesson covers exclamations, how would I say "What a breathtaking panorama!" based on this sentence?
Why is it Mio zio and not Il mio zio?
As a quick refresher: in Italian, singular close family members do not take the definite article when used with a possessive adjective (with the exception of loro). So it is just mio zio, but if he had plural uncles, it would go back to having the article: i miei zii.
I thought the verb to "take" is prendere. Why does this sentence use fa (makes/does)?
Panorama ends in "-a". Why is it preceded by the masculine article un instead of una?
Panorama is a masculine noun, despite ending in "-a". Many words in Italian that end in "-ma" (like problema, programma, clima, and panorama) originate from Greek and are masculine, so they take masculine articles and adjectives.
What kind of word is mozzafiato, and does it change its ending if the noun is plural?
Mozzafiato (breathtaking) is a compound adjective formed from the verb mozzare (to cut off/take away) and the noun il fiato (the breath). Adjectives made of a verb + noun are invariable, meaning mozzafiato never changes its ending, whether the noun it describes is masculine, feminine, singular, or plural.
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