Breakdown of L'impalcatura sta venendo rimossa dal muro.
da
from, at (someone's place) / by (oneself), on one's own
stare
to stay, to feel, to be
venire
to come
il muro
the wall
rimuovere
to remove
l'impalcatura
the scaffolding (f)
Questions & Answers about L'impalcatura sta venendo rimossa dal muro.
Why do we use venendo here to mean 'being'?
To express an ongoing passive action ('is being removed'), Italian pairs the present tense of stare with venendo and a past participle. English uses the verb 'to be' twice ('is being'), but Italian relies on stare for the continuous aspect and the gerund of venire (venendo) to build the passive voice.
Could I say sta essendo rimossa since essendo means 'being'?
Why is the past participle rimossa instead of rimosso?
In all passive sentences, the past participle must agree in gender and number with the subject receiving the action. Because the subject here is l'impalcatura (a feminine singular noun), the irregular past participle of rimuovere takes the feminine singular ending to become rimossa.
Why is it dal muro and not just da muro?
Because we are talking about a specific wall, we need the definite article il (the). When the preposition da (from) meets il, they combine into the articulated preposition dal.
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