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"Dal ponte si vede la stazione ferroviaria."
Translation:From the bridge one can see the railway station.
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In America, a "railroad" station and a "railway" station are exactly the same thing. The former is actaully used far more often.
Something is done from that bridge. Without "si" the bridge sees the train station, but you have to remove "dal" too. They come together in the sentence.
E.g. Dalla mia finestra si vede la Luna. La mia finestra vede la Luna.
Why is 'the train station is seen from the bridge' wrong? Not a literal but it avoids using 'can' which is not in the Italian and therefore not literal either.
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I agree with this. We don't use 'one' in English unless we're the queen! We would make the sentence passive to sound natural.
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The point is that although the use of the third person 'One' a gender neutral pronoun is not often used in English....it is often used in Italian. One must learn from one's mistakes.
Absolutely! 'one' is very uncommon in British English and pretty formal as others have said
"One" is very common indeed. I literally never use it but most of my wife's family do and loads of people I have worked with.
It gives clarity instead of using "you" in a generic sense.
Why do I need the one formulation? Why can't I use: The trainstation is visible from the bridge? It seems more natural for me as la stazione is the subject of the sentance.
Why can't it be translated as "From the bridge, one sees the railway station."
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Finally, someone who translated it about the same way I did! It would be nice to hear a response from someone.
