"Ho cominciato a preferire questo ristorante."

Translation: I have started to prefer this restaurant.

[judycucin]

"I started to prefer this restaurant" should be accepted!

[KonradFrit]

Accepted 12/17/20

[Sathyu]

Can this verb be analysed as the prefix 'pre' with the verb ferire? Does ferire mean carry/bear/move(transport) - ferry?

[CivisRomanus]

The prefix is correct. But the verb it originally stood before (in Latin) was fero  (infinitive: ferre ), that is 'to carry', 'to bear'.
So the meaning of praeferre  should be understood as 'to carry/bear (whatever is liked) before' (other options).

[Sedona2007]

The verb "ferire" = "to injure, to hurt or to wound".
"Non ferisce i miei sentimenti." = "It doesn't hurt my feelings."

And there is also "ferirsi" (reflexive verb) = "to hurt oneself, to injure oneself"
"Mi sono ferito una mano." = "I have hurt my hand."

[Xigxag]

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/praefero#Latin

From Wiktionary, the original latin can also be translated as prefering or placing before as well as to carry before so yes that etymology is correct.

[CharlesRey2]

Why "a prefirire" instead of "di prefirire?"

[SJLewisBriggs]

I spelt restaurant wrong (restuarant) - usually it would just say I have a typo but this time it marked it wrong! Why? It can't be confused with any other word, it's just two letters round the wrong way - I've made worse mistakes!

[MaryLauraS1]

"Have begun" and "have started" mean exactly the same thing in English in the context of this sentence.

[Roseanna223913]

AWKWARD