"Io non mangio carne sin da ragazzo."

Translation: I do not eat meat since childhood.

[cfeg]

new myster word -- no explanation

[Valete]

Again translation errors. It would be rendered in English: I HAVEN'T eaten meat since I WAS a boy

[lightgreen]

But that's a different tense. The problem is it's hard to predict what "da ragazzo" should mean. Dictionary says, "as a boy"; makes sort of sense.

[Eylon.saadon]

I agree, very unclear

[SJKIrk]

This is now accepted.

[temporalthings]

would this sentence mean the same thing in Italian if you just omitted "sin"

[undomielle]

Is this a standard idiomatic phrase? "Sin da ragazzo"? Or is it "Sin da ragazza" for girls, "Sin di/e ragazzi/e" in plural?

[gbrown28]

Can someone answer this?

[duracel84]

boyhood? Is that actually a word?

[royastar]

yes

[Montalbano]

There are actually 2 new words in this sentence. Ragazzo does not mean "boy" so it means something else. It's new.

[Valete]

Actually it does mean boy and is used in slang.

[Montalbano]

In the cult of translation theory, maybe. In this sentence ragazzo does not mean "boy". At this level of learning, things ought to stay fairly literal.

[SJKIrk]

In what way does ragazzo not mean boy?!?!

[spherewithin]

Well, bambino is more like boy, ragazzo is a little older, like a teenager up to a young adult, but nothing is clear cut

[Crypdan]

I'm Mexican so I speak Spanish and i understand this sentence as: "No como carne desde niño" so translated to english it would be: "I don't eat meat since when i was a boy". It's kind of unclear but "sin" acts like "since" and da acts like "i was a" or "from my". Something like that.