Breakdown of Di sera guardo la televisione.
guardare
to look at / to watch
la televisione
the television
di sera
in the evening
Questions & Answers about Di sera guardo la televisione.
Why do we use Di in Di sera instead of a word for "in"?
In Italian, to say "in the evening" or "at night", we use the preposition di followed by the time of day. So, di sera means "in the evening" and di notte means "at night".
Where is the word for "I" in this sentence?
The "I" is built right into the verb guardo. Because the ending -o already tells us that "I" am doing the action, Italian usually drops the subject pronoun io. Unlike the irregular verb uscire (to go out) from this lesson, guardare (to watch) is a completely regular -are verb.
Why is there a la before televisione?
In English, we just say "I watch television", but Italian often requires the definite article (the word for "the") before nouns even when talking in general. Here, you need la because televisione is a feminine noun.
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