"Il momento finale è mio."

Translation: The final moment is mine.

[voins]

Why not "è il mio"? It's a little bit confusing...

[gringorjones]

It's an object pronoun - mine, not my. You don't need the article with those.

[Janan001]

It's a possessive pronoun. From the 'Tips' section in 'Possessions':
"In Italian an article is almost always mandatory before a possessive pronoun. The exceptions are:
It's not used before close family members, in the singular and not modified, e.g. "mio padre" (my father), unless the possessive is "loro" (in which case the article is needed).
It's optional when the possessive adjective is alone following a form of "essere," e.g. "è mio" (it's mine).
It's not used in a small number of set phrases, e.g. "casa mia" (my home)"
Hope that helps.

[RussNitali51106]

Double il... Not good..

[murphy4709]

In what context would someone say this?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

Perhaps the Wicked Witch of the West or Maleficent

[jayperk1]

Kobe Bryant talking to his teammates when the game is on the line

[LEONARDOArtist]

Bravo!!!

[Tybosky]

Here's to you, Nicola and Bart

[vpurr]

Because if it were to include il mio it would have to read "il mio momento finale" my final moment but here he is saying that the final moment is his. So the pronoun (il) is attached to the subject (momento).

[musmoulay]

I don't think there's any law against having two definite articles in one sentence and would suggest, as voins did, that "il momento finale è il mio" should be fine.

Could someone confirm this please?

[xyphax]

It's optional. F. formica posted this on another strand:

' ... the article is also omitted in many idiomatic locutions (e.g. casa mia, a mio avviso, a sua immagine), and it's optional when the possessive is a predicate (i.e. alone after essere).'

[musmoulay]

that's useful to know, thank you.

[LynnSerafi]

Thanks for that. Hope I can remember it!

[Stick.to.it]

Grazie!

[Germanlehrerlsu]

musmoulay: you're right. That's what i wrote and it was correct.

[LEONARDOArtist]

Madagascar has such a law. I'd stray far from that island if I were you bello.

[musmoulay]

I was there last week and wasn't even cautioned for using two definite articles in one sentence!!

[LEONARDOArtist]

Obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about. Mea Culpa :)

[HydraBianca]

but would 'il mio' be wrong?

[Devilini]

Said the supervillian!

[SamanthaCruz4]

That's literally what I said XD

[mikeforbes]

Confused too. Why not il mio ?

[Jeffrey855877]

Emphasis, probably

[ArianNiewe]

Why is 'my final moment' not a good translation?

[Germanlehrerlsu]

I'm guessing it's because it's an incomplete sentence/thought vs DL's answer.

[Jeffrey855877]

That would be "il mio momento finale"

[LotSparham]

the final moment is mine - not accepted because i didn't capitalize "the"?

[Jeffrey855877]

You probably had some other mistake in it. Did you copy and paste your answer here? If not, do that the next time, so people can see if you've got an error you're missing.

[acostaem]

... Says the final boss upon thwarting the heroes' plan.

[Ljreber]

I just had this exercise where il mio was accepted, now no.

[ArminKessner]

sinister laughing