Topic: Italian

"Today dinner is on me."

Translation:Oggi offro io la cena.

January 20, 2013

5 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/trollreign

    This is quite hard to translate from English to Italian.

    January 20, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/Elena18

      True. That's because "dinner is on me" is an idiom in Englis- IE, the dinner is not literally "ON" you, but rather you're paying for it.

      March 30, 2013
      https://www.duolingo.com/Elena18

        Would "Io pago PER la cena" be incorrect? (duo accepts "io pago la cena" which sounds to me as if it is missing a preposition..? Unless it's an idiom?) Grazie.

        March 30, 2013
        https://www.duolingo.com/vfcampi

          pagare translates to both to pay and to pay for, so per is unnecessary

          March 31, 2013
          https://www.duolingo.com/notesurfer

            Anyone have any insight as to why it's "offro io" and not "io offro?"

            January 8, 2014
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