Breakdown of Questa nuova routine mattutina mi ha reso molto efficiente.
nuovo
new
questo
this (masculine)
molto
very
avere
to have
mi
me (direct object)
rendere
to make (someone/something) + adjective, to render
mattutino
morning
la routine
the routine
efficiente
efficient
Questions & Answers about Questa nuova routine mattutina mi ha reso molto efficiente.
Why do we use reso here instead of fatto to translate 'made'?
In English, we use 'make' both for creating things and for causing a change of state. In Italian, fare is used to make someone do an action (mi ha fatto ridere - it made me laugh). However, when you 'make' someone or something into an adjective (a new state), you must use rendere. Therefore, 'made me efficient' translates to mi ha reso efficiente.
Should reso agree with the pronoun mi if the speaker is female?
It can, but it is not mandatory. With the direct object pronouns mi, ti, ci, and vi, changing the past participle to match gender and number is optional in modern Italian. A female speaker could say either mi ha reso or mi ha resa. However, remember that if the pronoun were third-person (lo, la, li, le), agreement would be strictly required.
Why is the word for 'morning' mattutina here instead of mattina?
How do we know the gender of a foreign loanword like routine?
We can clearly see it is feminine here because it is modified by Questa nuova. Foreign loanwords usually take the gender they have in their original language (it is feminine in French), or they adopt the gender of the most similar native Italian noun (in this case, l'abitudine, which is also feminine).
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