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L'investimento nel progetto è utile.

L'investimento nel progetto è utile.
The investment in the project is useful.
From Lesson 304:Noun-forming suffixes (-zione, -mento, -ezza, -ità)·Italian

Questions & Answers about L'investimento nel progetto è utile.

How is the noun investimento formed from its verb?
It is built by taking the verb investire (to invest) and adding the suffix -mento. This suffix is heavily used in Italian to turn verbs into nouns that describe a process or the result of an action, very much like "-ment" in English.
Is investimento masculine or feminine, and does the -mento ending help us know?
The ending is a perfect clue! Nouns created with the -mento suffix are almost always masculine. Here, it takes the masculine article l' because it starts with a vowel.
Why do we use nel instead of just in before progetto?
In Italian, the preposition in must combine with the definite article of the noun that follows it. Since progetto uses the article il, the words in + il merge into the single articulated preposition nel.
Would the adjective utile change if the subject of the sentence were feminine?
No, adjectives ending in -e like utile are identical for both masculine and feminine nouns in the singular. They only change when made plural, where the -e ending becomes an -i (like utili).

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