Breakdown of A furia di studiare, assimilare nuovi concetti diventerà facile.
nuovo
new
facile
easy
studiare
to study
diventare
to become
il concetto
the concept
a furia di
through sheer / by dint of
assimilare
to assimilate / to absorb
Questions & Answers about A furia di studiare, assimilare nuovi concetti diventerà facile.
What exactly does a furia di mean here, and can I use a forza di instead?
A furia di translates to 'by dint of' or 'from [doing something] so much'. It introduces an implicit causal clause, meaning it explains the cause of something through a repeated or continuous action. Yes, you can absolutely swap it with a forza di studiare here; the two expressions are perfectly interchangeable.
Why does the main verb diventerà use the third-person singular when it is right next to the plural nuovi concetti?
The subject of diventerà is not the plural noun concetti, but the infinitive verb assimilare. When a verb acts as the subject of a sentence in Italian (like 'assimilating' does in the English translation), it always takes a third-person singular conjugation.
Wait, doesn't an implicit clause require the main clause to have the same subject? Who is the subject here?
That is a very sharp observation! Normally, if you use an implicit clause like a furia di studiare, the person doing the studying must be the grammatical subject of the main clause. However, this sentence is a general, impersonal statement. The logical agent doing the studying is a general 'anyone', and that same 'anyone' will find it easy to assimilate concepts. Because the whole thought is impersonal, this structure is perfectly acceptable here.
Why is the adjective placed before the noun in nuovi concetti rather than after?
Placing nuovi before concetti treats 'new concepts' as a single, natural category. If you wrote concetti nuovi, it would place a stronger, restrictive emphasis on the fact that these are the new ones as opposed to the old ones. Both are grammatically correct, but the pre-nominal position flows more naturally for a general statement like this.
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