Word
La volpe è scappata e il cervo è rimasto.
Meaning
The fox escaped and the deer stayed.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of La volpe è scappata e il cervo è rimasto.
essere
to be
e
and
scappare
to escape
rimanere
to remain, to stay behind
Questions & Answers about La volpe è scappata e il cervo è rimasto.
Why do both of these verbs use è instead of ha?
Both scappare (to escape) and rimanere (to stay) are intransitive verbs expressing movement or a state of being. In Italian, these types of verbs always take essere as their auxiliary (helping) verb in compound tenses like the passato prossimo.
Why does the past participle end in -a for the fox but -o for the deer?
Is rimasto an irregular past participle?
Yes. The infinitive is rimanere (to remain/stay). It has an irregular past participle, rimasto. If it were a regular -ere verb, you might expect a different ending, so this specific form just has to be memorized.
La volpe is feminine and il cervo is masculine. Does this mean they are specifically a female fox and a male deer?