Breakdown of L'autobus gira a destra, poi va dritto.
l'autobus
the bus (m)
andare
to go / to be fine / to work out
a
to / at
girare
to turn
Questions & Answers about L'autobus gira a destra, poi va dritto.
Why do we use a in a destra instead of another preposition?
When giving directions in Italian, you always use the preposition a with destra (right) and sinistra (left). For simple turns, you leave out the word for "the", so it is just a destra, not alla destra.
If the subject was feminine, like la macchina (the car), would dritto change to dritta?
Are gira and va regular verbs?
Gira is from the regular verb girare (to turn). But va is from the highly irregular verb andare (to go). They both end in -a here simply because they are conjugated for "it" (l'autobus).