Breakdown of Avremmo voluto mostrare più solidarietà e coesione a tutti loro.
e
and
loro
they
avere
to have
a
to / at
tutto
all the / whole
volere
to want
mostrare
to show
più
more / anymore (with 'non')
la solidarietà
the solidarity
la coesione
the cohesion
Questions & Answers about Avremmo voluto mostrare più solidarietà e coesione a tutti loro.
Why is it tutti loro instead of tutti di loro for "all of them"?
In Italian, when the quantifier tutto is followed by a stressed personal pronoun (like noi, voi, or loro), you do not use the preposition di ("of") or a definite article. You simply place the pronoun directly after the quantifier, making sure tutto matches the gender and number of the pronoun: tutti loro.
Why does this sentence use avremmo (from avere) instead of saremmo (from essere) for the conditional perfect?
When modal verbs like volere, potere, or dovere are used in compound tenses, they borrow the auxiliary verb of the infinitive that follows them. Because the main verb mostrare (to show) takes avere, the modal verb also takes avere, giving us avremmo voluto mostrare.
Could we use the unstressed pronoun gli before the verb instead of a loro at the end?
Since solidarietà and coesione are feminine, why doesn't the past participle agree and become voluta?
In this sentence, the auxiliary verb is avere, and the direct objects (solidarietà e coesione) come after the verb. With avere, past participles only agree with the object if it is a direct object pronoun (like la or le) placed before the verb. In this standard word order, the past participle (voluto) remains invariable and ends in -o.
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