Breakdown of Ti voglio spiegare il funzionamento del collegamento.
di
of, from
volere
to want
spiegare
to explain
ti
to you
il funzionamento
the functioning
il collegamento
the connection
Questions & Answers about Ti voglio spiegare il funzionamento del collegamento.
Both funzionamento and collegamento end in -mento. How does this suffix work?
Are nouns created with the -mento suffix always masculine?
Why doesn't this sentence use the word connessione for connection?
Both il collegamento and la connessione mean connection and are often interchangeable, especially in technology or logic. Notice that they both use abstract noun suffixes! Collegamento uses -mento (from the verb collegare), while connessione uses a variation of the -zione suffix (from the verb connettere).
Why is the pronoun Ti at the very beginning of the sentence instead of attached to the verb spiegare?
When using a modal verb like volere (to want) followed by an infinitive, you have two choices for pronoun placement. You can put the pronoun before the conjugated modal verb, like we see here with Ti voglio spiegare, or you can drop the final -e of the infinitive and attach it there, creating Voglio spiegarti. Both are completely correct and mean exactly the same thing.
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