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Mar 01, 2013 - 02:47 PM
Also, is this sentence (from the same lesson) correct: "A che ora chiudono il museo nuovo". Shouldn't the verb take the masculine singular form of "to close" rather than the plural?
Mar 02, 2013 - 06:09 AM
I believe the verb should be "chiude," the 3rd person singular (not the "masculine singular," just the "singular"). (Unless it's some idiom where what you are really saying is "at what time do THEY close the museum" - I'm not sure - perhaps someone else has an answer?)
Mar 02, 2013 - 08:40 AM
Thank you, that's what I meant! I did run the sentence through google translate (which is by no means precise), and it used "chiude" as you stated above. Does anyone from Fluenz care to comment?
Mar 03, 2013 - 08:05 AM
I also read it as "at what time do they close the new museum?" If you put the Italian phrase in google, that's what it says as well. I'm not sure about your question on "soldi". If I translate it to English, they both make sense as is, but that is far from definitive! :-)
Mar 06, 2013 - 05:33 PM
OK, that makes sense!
Jun 23, 2014 - 09:23 PM
I just assumed that the sentence would be translated "At what time do ¨they close the new museum?" It could have been written differently, with little change in meaning, but like English, Italian can express the same thought in different ways. In fact, in this context, the English, or at least American colloquial English, would usually be written using the 3rd person plural (the "'mythical 'they'"!).