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- "Io vado verso il cavallo."
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this thing happens with personal pronouns only. You go verso di me, verso di lei, verso di noi, verso di loro. I can't think of the circumstances in which you can go "verso di te" but someone could throw something, a stone, "verso di te".
Instead you go verso il cavallo, verso piazza San Marco, verso Roma, verso New York and every other thing and living being.
I hope there aren't exceptions. There could be, because what I've just told you doesn't come from a grammar. I'm only trying to remember how I speak and creating a rule in this moment. I'm native, not a teacher.
At many universities in advanced language courses "intuition of a native speaker" is an accepted authority.
Never approach: (A) un cavallo from the rear side. (B) un toro from the front side. (C) un idiota from any side
@ArturasKul Why not? And while you are at it, look up the translation for that phrase then.
I'm not a native speaker but I think the Italian word for walk is camminare. "I walk" is therefore "Io cammino". "Andare (vado)" is "to go".
'a' is to, while 'verso' is towards. it means almost the same thing, but then again, English has the distinction.
Definitely sounds like cavalla, not cavallo. Cavalla, mare. Cavallo, horse. Having real trouble transferring speaking to text. Should i just drop this option?
You can say either. Use the former if you want to emphasise that "I" did something.
I'm thinking 'di lui' and 'il cavallo' are correct when verso. Vado di lui= i go to him vado verso il cavallo= i go towards the horse. You wouldn't say "I go towards horse" just as you would never say "I go towards the him".
I wouldn't say "I go towards . . ." in any situation. It feels regional to me. Grew up in California. I would say "I go toward the (name of animal or other object here)".
Why can't I eliminate 'Io' from the beginning of the sentence? It means the same thing and using Io is unnecessary.
Sometimes you can leave "Io" at the beggining to emphasise that it's YOU who's going towards the horse. Other than that, it's unnecessary.
i wonder if it is the same as to say vado dal cavallo? as in the other lesson was va dall'orso and the translation was the same...
Why use "towards" in the English translation, when "toward" is the more proper word? Because the "s" in"toward" serves no purpose and doesn't alter the meaning, it is considered both redundant and superfluous.
"Towards and toward are prepositions. We can use both forms, but towards is much more common than toward. …"
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/towards-or-toward
I wrote: "I walk towards the horse", but the system said it's wrong. What's wrong with it?
I can't activate listening exercises again without losing my advance. Please create that option.
