Breakdown of Si è misurato l'incremento del trimestre e ne abbiamo visti di grandi.
essere
to be
e
and
grande
big
avere
to have
Questions & Answers about Si è misurato l'incremento del trimestre e ne abbiamo visti di grandi.
Why does this sentence use è misurato instead of ha misurato?
This is the si passivante (passive 'si'). In compound tenses like the passato prossimo, the si passivante always takes essere as its auxiliary verb. Because it acts like a passive voice, the verb and its past participle (misurato) must agree with the subject receiving the action—in this case, the masculine singular noun l'incremento.
If the sentence starts by talking about the singular l'incremento, why is the second participle plural (visti)?
The second clause introduces the partitive pronoun ne, meaning 'of them' (referring to a broader plural concept of 'increases'). When you use ne as a direct object in a compound tense, the past participle must agree with the gender and number of the noun ne replaces. Since it replaces the masculine plural concept of 'increases', the participle becomes visti.
Why is there a di before grandi at the end of the sentence?
This is a specific rule triggered by the pronoun ne. When ne replaces a noun and you want to describe those replaced items with a standalone adjective (like saying 'big ones' in English), you must put the preposition di right before the adjective. So, 'we saw big ones' becomes ne abbiamo visti di grandi.
Could si è misurato also be translated as an impersonal 'one measured' or 'they measured'?