Breakdown of La pecora mangia l'erba nel campo.
mangiare
to eat
l'erba
the grass (f)
nel
in the (in + il) / while / upon (doing something)
il campo
the field
la pecora
the sheep
Questions & Answers about La pecora mangia l'erba nel campo.
Since this lesson is about che (that/who), how would I use it to say 'The sheep that eats the grass'?
In English, 'sheep' is both singular and plural. Is pecora the same?
Why is it nel campo instead of in il campo?
In Italian, when the preposition in (in) is followed by the definite article il (the), they must combine into a single word: nel. You will never see in il written as two separate words.
Why does erba have the article l' attached to it? Could I just say mangia erba?
You can sometimes say mangia erba to mean it is eating some grass, but Italian uses definite articles much more often than English, especially for general categories or substances. L'erba is the most natural way to say this. The l' is just the feminine article la with its vowel dropped because erba starts with a vowel.
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