"L'ombrello è bianco."

Translation: The umbrella is white.

[sophie357053]

Why is it not 'the white umbrella'

[Germanlehrerlsu]

sophie...because 'the white umbrella' is not a complete sentence.

[ChrisBrook714072]

The word é means "It is" so "It is" needs to be included in the sentence.

[Germanlehrerlsu]

ChrisBrook. you can't include "It" as the subject if that's what you mean, because the sentence already has an explicit subject, L'ombrello. If you include "It" you'd be saying: "The umbrella it is white.

[Jemappelleian]

Ok, I'm confused, why are we using bianco instead of bianca? I thought it had to do with gender of the noun but ombrello is female?

[Amphibian]

Ombrello is male.