"Allora tu non sei un vero cuoco."
Translation:Then you are not a real cook.
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"Poi" and "Allora" have a temporal sense, but "Allora" has another meaning added to it: the logical consequence. Instead "Poi" only means after ....
Notice the difference:
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you made something and "poi" you walked away. Here "poi" indicates the succession of events only. You are only saying that you are going to do something and after that you walk away, without stating any causal link between the two events. They can be completely unrelated. You're only saying that a thing happens after another one.
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you made something and "allora" you walked away. Here there is a temporal succession but this is caused by the fact that the second action is a consequence of the first. The children broke the glass playing soccer and "allora" they walked away before being caught by teachers. Here the first action is the cause of the following action.
Eventually, there is another sense of allora. In some cases "allora" can have a pure temporal sense. It's when you are talking of a remote temporal situation, and in that case "allora" means : at that time. Mi sono sposato a 18 anni. Allora credevo nell'amore. I got married when I was 18 y.o. Allora (at that time) I was believing in love.
“I said "therefore you are not a true cook" and it marked me wrong. Can "allora" not be translated as "therefore"? It seems like it means almost the same as "then" in this context.
Perfect - thanks for that clarification. I still wish it hadn't marked me wrong, but if it got me to have this discussion then I guess it was all for the best indeed!
Paolo, 'allora' might be used as a type of "speech mark", as something you say in order to keep talking, in order for the brain process stuff to go farther (on speech)?
In Portuguese we have at least two: 'então' and 'daí'. Both has temporal implications, and are used to connect parts of the speech, to keep on talking (and not allowing someone else to), to organize ideas and thinking, to begin a conversation, as a conclusive remark, multiple uses, just like 'allora'!
Maybe they're related in some way?
Being someone who thrives on word association to remember foreign words, I like your suggestion.
Also, Italians can have the tendency to use 'allora' as filler, sort of like Americans use 'so', 'like', 'you know.' A friend was taking an Italian immersion class in Florence and the instructor constantly used the word 'allora.' Finally, my friend asked her what 'allora' meant and she was puzzled at his question. When he explained, she said she had no idea she kept using the word.
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I was wondering about that word for as long as I knew Italian language and had an interest. I always keep hearing it when watching Rai sports and the commentators "allora.... allora"
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Can someone explain why the word "sei" is used in this sentence? Wouldn't the sentence work without this word?
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Some of these scenarios are fascinating. How and why did the speaker discover that This was Not a "real cook/"
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Cannot believe it took 4 months of this DL course, hundreds of lessons, to get to the first ALLORA - the word that occures in every second sentence in spoken Italian ;)