Learn Italian: Il parcheggio del supermercato è pieno. - The supermarket parking lot is full.

Il parcheggio del supermercato è pieno.

The supermarket parking lot is full.

Breakdown of Il parcheggio del supermercato è pieno.

of the; than the (di + il)

Questions & Answers about Il parcheggio del supermercato è pieno.

Can I say il supermercato parcheggio like we do in English?

No, Italian doesn't usually stack nouns directly next to each other to describe things. You almost always have to connect them with a preposition, usually di (of), to show the relationship: literally, the parking lot of the supermarket.

Why do we use del instead of just di here?

Because Italian generally requires the definite article before nouns in this structure. You are saying the parking lot of the supermarket. The preposition di combines with il (the article for supermercato) to make the combined word del.

What is the plural of parcheggio?

The plural is parcheggi. When a masculine noun ends in -io (and the stress isn't on the 'i'), you don't add another 'i' for the plural. You just drop the final 'o'.

What is the opposite of pieno if I want to say the lot is empty?

The opposite of pieno (full) is vuoto (empty). Just like pieno, it is an adjective that must agree with the noun it describes, so here it would be: Il parcheggio del supermercato è vuoto.