"Today dinner is on me."

Translation: Oggi offro io la cena.

[notesurfer]

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

[trollreign]

This is quite hard to translate from English to Italian.

[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.

[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.

[vfcampi]

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