Breakdown of L'azienda ipotizza di cancellare il debutto.
cancellare
to cancel
l'azienda
the company (f)
di
to (linking a verb to a following infinitive)
ipotizzare
to hypothesize
il debutto
the debut
Questions & Answers about L'azienda ipotizza di cancellare il debutto.
This lesson is about the reportative conditional, but ipotizza is in the present indicative. Why?
Because the statement is being presented as a confirmed fact: it is known that the company really is considering this. If a journalist wanted to present the company's thoughts as an unconfirmed rumor, they would use the reportative conditional and say L'azienda ipotizzerebbe di cancellare il debutto (The company is reportedly considering canceling the debut).
Why is there a di between ipotizza and cancellare?
Verbs related to thinking, believing, or planning (like credere, pensare, or ipotizzare) generally require the preposition di before a following infinitive. This rule applies when the subject of both verbs is the same, which is true here: the company does the hypothesizing and would also do the canceling.
How would this sentence change if the company hypothesized that the event sponsors were going to cancel the debut?
Because the subject of the second action would change (from the company to the sponsors), you could no longer use di plus an infinitive. Instead, you would need to use che followed by a conjugated verb in the subjunctive mood, such as L'azienda ipotizza che gli sponsor cancellino il debutto.
Is ipotizzare a common verb for everyday situations?
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