"C'è pure scritto."
Translation:It is even written.
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An asterisk or italics for the first few times an idiom appears would be most welcome.
A literal translation would include "there", which is what "ci" is there for: it's idiomatic though.
Say you hadn't stamped your train ticket and claimed that you didn't know you had to; the train officer might go "Andiamo, c'è pure scritto!", "Come on now, it's even written (on the ticket)". Just an example out of many; this idiom is generally used when pointing out that you should know something because you're supposed to have read it.
This happened to me on the train from the airport in Rome. My Italian wasn't good enough to explain to the conductor why I hadn't done it. Luckily there was another American there who explained that I was a poor, confused American tourist and convinced the conductor not to fine me.
I can't see how it's an idiom. it seems to me to be a perfectly literal translation.
It's not an idiom. Whenever a language is different from English, some people cry "idiom!" but, in truth, Duolingo almost never uses real idioms.
Real idioms are fragile. Almost any change breaks them. For example, "He kicked the bucket" is a real idiom. We cannot say "The bucket was kicked by him" without invoking a real bucket.
This makes idioms very hard for beginners and even intermediate students to use. Duolingo wisely stays away from them.
So then "It's even written there" is correct as well? In english we can say "There, it's even written" (note the comma or pause).
It's an idiom because c'è means there is. The translation DL gives us is "It is even written". A literal translation (" There is even written " ) would not make sense.
That's bad logic, mangoHero. Whether something is idiomatic in one language isn't dependent on another language or translations; literal translations work surprisingly rarely. By your logic, if there are any languages without an existential clause, then any sentence with "there is" are idiomatic in English!
Hyperbole aside, I agree with Humberto. Why is the U in PURE pronounced like in the English word pure?
I noticed that too. I think it is an artifact of some new AI voices. In my estimation the 'e' should be pronounced, and yes, the word is not pronounced like the English 'pure.'
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Comments about it being pronounced like the English word "pure" started about 11 months ago, so I'm guessing they "fixed" it then. I just reported it, of course, and I hope that others have too.
As far as I understand it, in this sentence, "è" translates to "it is" and "Ci" to "there". The literal translation is "it is even written there".
"C'è" would translate to something like "it is there", not to "there is" like we got used to.
I appreciate that this has been decalred an idiomatic saying, but could someone tell me how you would say "he even wrote to us"
"Ci ha pure scritto", "Ci ha anche scritto", "Ha scritto pure a noi", "Ha scritto anche a noi".
I really tried to figure this one out but the 'c'è absolutely threw me off!
I guess the closest thing I can think of now that I read where this might be used would be "It's even spelled out!", "There, it's even spelled out!" or "It's even spelled out right there!"
Are any of those accepted?
Why would this not be “It was even written” or “It has been written”? I thought we were studying Passato Prossimo. Is it just because it’s an idiom?
È scritto isnt present tense, right? In the spirit of the tense we are learning in this section, I translated it, "it has also been written" but it wasnt accepted
I believe it is in fact present tense. For past tense, you would use avere rather than essere. This is another example of using the past participle as an adjective in the present tense. Others in this unit include "The book is used" (usata) and "The shirt is opened" (aperta).
This sentence is not good English. I hope the Italian-to-English people aren't getting this question.
