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Good fair question - no idea why some folk appeared to give you the thumbs down for it - have given you a thumbs up and await a useful answer.
Not necessary to be fat, she could be paralyzed and needs a special car for the wheelchair !!!
Thanks, no wrong with fat people, and we must be careful that our comments don't hurt others indirectly .
Would the literal translation of this sentence be, "She does not fit there in that car?"
No, in this case ci is part of the verb "starci" (stare + ci); stare usually mean "to be in", starci extends the meaning a bit with "to fit (in something)", "to go along (with something)". These verbs are usually conjugated with their pronoun, i.e. io ci sto, tu ci stai, and so on.
I wish a could bookmark such useful comments using the Duolingo app but I can't. I also wish a could give you a lingot but the app does not have this capability either.
My answer: " She is not in that car" was accepted as correct, and sincerely makes more sense that the one DL has as the right one. The Spanish translation: Ella no esta en aquel automovil" corresponds almost completely.
Be careful when using Spanish as a comparison, they don't always match: in particular, the Spanish "estar" and the Italian "stare" have different rules of usage. That being said, your sentence makes sense in some regional variants of Italian, but it's not really mainstream.
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So,we still don't have an answer to the original politically incorrect but valid question. Is s/he to fat for the car?
