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Ne ho visti di ridicoli.

Ne ho visti di ridicoli.
I saw some ridiculous ones.
From Lesson 308:Partitives with plural adjectives (ne... di)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Ne ho visti di ridicoli.

Why is there a di before the adjective ridicoli?
This is a special rule for the partitive pronoun ne. When you use ne to mean "some of them" and want to describe those items with a standalone adjective, you must place di before the adjective. The combination of ne and di ridicoli creates the meaning "some ridiculous ones."
Why does the past participle end in -i (visti) instead of the default -o (visto)?
When ne replaces a countable direct object, the past participle in a compound tense must agree in gender and number with the noun that ne replaces. Because the speaker is referring back to a masculine plural noun, visto changes to visti.
Could this sentence be used if the speaker were talking about ridiculous things (cose)?
No, because cose is feminine plural. If the previously mentioned noun were feminine plural (like cose, idee, or scarpe), both the past participle and the adjective would need to agree with it. The sentence would instead have to be Ne ho viste di ridicole.
How does Italian express the English word "ones" here?
It doesn't translate it directly. English often requires a placeholder word like "ones" because adjectives usually can't stand completely alone as the object of a sentence. Italian doesn't need this placeholder; the pronoun ne ("of them") working together with the di + adjective structure is completely sufficient to express "some ridiculous ones."

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