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Tutti voi ci avete supportato per mantenere alto il morale.

Tutti voi ci avete supportato per mantenere alto il morale.
All of you supported us to keep the morale high.
From Lesson 404:The word tutto with pronouns (tutti noi)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Tutti voi ci avete supportato per mantenere alto il morale.

Why is it tutti voi instead of tutti di voi to say all of you?
When tutto is used with a stressed pronoun like voi or noi, Italian connects them directly without a preposition. You just match the gender and number of tutto to the pronoun. So, all of us is tutti noi and all of you is tutti voi.
Since ci means us and is the direct object here, shouldn't the past participle agree and be supportati instead of supportato?
It can be! With the third-person direct object pronouns lo and la, the past participle must agree. However, with first and second person pronouns (mi, ti, ci, vi), agreement is entirely optional. Both ci avete supportato and ci avete supportati are correct and natural.
In the phrase mantenere alto il morale, why is the adjective alto placed before the noun?
Here, alto is acting as an object complement, describing the state the morale is kept in. While you can absolutely say mantenere il morale alto, putting the adjective right after the verb is a common stylistic choice in Italian, treating keep high almost as a single action.
Is morale always masculine? I recall seeing la morale before.
The gender changes the meaning! Il morale (masculine) refers to mood, spirits, or psychological well-being, which is what this sentence needs. La morale (feminine) means morality, ethics, or the moral of a story.

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