Breakdown of Due escursionisti sono restati intrappolati nel bosco.
essere
to be
due
two
restare
to stay, to remain
nel
in the (in + il) / while / upon (doing something)
il bosco
the woods
l'escursionista
the hiker (m/f)
intrappolare
to trap
Questions & Answers about Due escursionisti sono restati intrappolati nel bosco.
Why use "sono restati intrappolati" instead of the standard passive "sono stati intrappolati"?
Could I use the verb "rimanere" instead of "restare" in this sentence?
Absolutely. In the resultative passive, restare and rimanere are virtually interchangeable. You could say sono rimasti intrappolati and it would mean the exact same thing.
Why are there two past participles here, and why do they both end in "-i"?
The phrase is built with the auxiliary essere (conjugated as sono), the past participle of the resultative verb (restati), and the main verb's past participle (intrappolati). Because the auxiliary is essere, all past participles must agree in gender and number with the masculine plural subject escursionisti.
The singular of "hikers" is "escursionista". Why does the plural end in "-i" instead of "-e"?
Nouns ending in -ista are the same for masculine and feminine in the singular (like un escursionista or un'escursionista). In the plural, however, they take regular endings: -isti for masculine or mixed groups, and -iste for exclusively female groups. Since it is escursionisti, we know it is a masculine or mixed pair.
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