Word
Il gatto porta un uccello morto in casa.
Meaning
The cat brings a dead bird into the house.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Il gatto porta un uccello morto in casa.
un
a / an (masculine)
il gatto
the cat
la casa
the house
l'uccello
the bird (m)
Questions & Answers about Il gatto porta un uccello morto in casa.
Since this lesson is about past tenses, how would I say "The cat brought a dead bird" (completed action) versus "The cat used to bring..." (a habit)?
For a single, completed event (Passato Prossimo), you would use ha portato: Il gatto ha portato.... For a repeated habit in the past (Imperfetto), you would use portava: Il gatto portava....
Why is it in casa and not nella casa?
For certain common locations like casa (home/house), Italian uses the simple preposition in without the definite article (la) when referring to the general idea of the place. So in casa means "indoors" or "into the house/home." You would only use nella casa if you were specifying a particular house, like nella casa rossa (in the red house).
Why does morto come after uccello?
In Italian, descriptive adjectives like morto (dead) usually come after the noun they describe. Notice that morto ends in -o because it has to agree with the masculine singular noun uccello.