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L'imballaggio è insufficiente, ce ne serve urgentemente altro.
Meaning
The packaging is insufficient, we urgently need more of it.
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Breakdown of L'imballaggio è insufficiente, ce ne serve urgentemente altro.
essere
to be
ci
to us
altro
other, another
ne
of it / of them / some (pronoun)
Questions & Answers about L'imballaggio è insufficiente, ce ne serve urgentemente altro.
Why is the verb serve (it is needed) rather than a form meaning 'we need'?
The verb servire works like piacere. The thing needed is the grammatical subject, and the person who needs it is the indirect object. In this sentence, the subject is the singular pronoun altro (more), so the verb is the third-person singular serve. The 'we' is expressed by the indirect object pronoun ce (to us).
Why is the pronoun ce used instead of ci for 'to us'?
Does altro always mean 'more' rather than 'other'?
How would this sentence change if we needed more 'boxes' (scatole, feminine plural) instead of 'packaging'?