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- "It is not necessarily true."
"It is not necessarily true."
Translation:Non è detto che è così.
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There is a mistake in the Italian translation. "Non è detto che sia così" should be used. An alternative translation would be "Non è necessariamente vero"
I put what marziotta said" "Non e necessariamente vero" and it was accepted. Hurray!
I didn't have that choice offered either. Tough luck :(( But the meaning seams to be about equal. Just accept it. The saying might be useful sometime.
Sorry, but I have to call "BS" on this one!!!! NOTHING DUO (under)handed us here makes sense "Vero" "giusta" or maybe even "sicura" should be there, but NOT the line of crap handed to us!!! COME ON, DUO!!!!
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Settle down there. Duo cannot have every single option. You learn from not knowing things, too.
If you typed it as suggested in the post above (Non e necessariamente vero) it likely would be marked wrong. It needs a (è) rather than (e) as these are different words
"It is not said that it is so." This has no relationship to "It is not necessarily true." Doubtful Lingo strikes again!
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It looks to me like that's an idiom, not a sentence that ought to be literally translated (of course, you only find that out when you try and fail...)
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That's true even in English, where a proper statement of the idiom would be, "It is not said that it be true" rather than "it is true". Subjunctive still has some uses in English, even if few even know what it is.
"Non è per forza vero" is also accepted (at least as of October 2019).
If you haven't seen this idiom before, this sentence is impossible to translate. I had to build the Italian translation from individual words, and words such as "vero" or "necessariamente" were not even listed...
Imagine my surprise, getting "necessariamente" as an option but getting it wrong! I feel like it's these bigger WTF moments that i learn more from
I got this on a lesson on Adverbs. Not an adverb in sight!!! This should be in Idioms
Was expecting necessariamente and vero to be in the word list but they were not so i thought Dl had gone bonkers.
You tricked me Duo, first you teach me the word for necessarily and then I'm not supposed to use it.
There's even a mistake. Anyway, you can say "Non è necessariamente vero" that is a pretty much literal translation.
This sentence wasn't taught in this way. The vocabulary taught wasnt available to finish the sentence correctly.
Does è detto mean it is said? Can I say è detto che parlare italiano è facile (It is said that it is easy to speak Italian)?
We have the idiom "Non è detto" (It's not necessarily true), but not the idiom "È detto". In such case we would say "Si dice che parlare italiano SIA facile" (we need the subjunctive, the given sentence is WRONG)
Sorry - you'd already said it was wrong. It's a bad idea to start a whole new concept, tenses of verbs, with an idiomatic saying that has nothing to do with the matter at hand and has an error. I can understand Si dice che and the subjunctive is used because it is "subjective" so you've taught me something here! Duolingo just screwed up on this one. Actually you can usually tell something's wrong by the number of comments.
No need to be sorry, I wrote it in capital letters to make it clear and visible. ;)
It's a pity if people think that something wrong is correct.
I had to pick out of words (vs typing) and with the words available to me I had to put together "Non è necessariamente così" . It was accepted. This is just a bad question I think. It doesn't work in multiple question formats, then they had to be overly lenient on what counts as a correct answer.
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Duo doesn't list anything like this in the options for help. Not comprehensible input. Agree with Joe! Frustrating!
This would be a very convoluted and cumbersome way to express this in English. Would one really commonly say this in Italian?
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Comunque la frase giusta sarebbe "Non è detto che SIA cosí" non credo si possa usare È in una frase con condizione di causa o dubitativa
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DL needs a seperate section on idioms. There isn't an adverb in their given translation.
In other exersize duo lingo translated it like this: Non e necessiaremente cosi. So now we have totaly different translation?
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As DL wouldn't accept 'reply' as a translation for 'risposta', I woulnt be risking anything as fancy as the above
