What is 'What is the joy of life' in Italian?

Qual'è la gioia DELLa vita? is an Italian equivalent of the English phrase "What is the joy of life?"

Specifically, the interrogative quale* is "what". The verb è means "is". The feminine singular definite article la means "the". The feminine noun gioia means "life". The Word DELLa means "of the ". The feminine noun vita translates as "life".

The pronunciation will be "kwa-leh la DJO-ya DEL-la VEE-ta" in Italian.

*The final vowel drops -- and is replaced by an apostrophe -- when the verb begins with a vowel.