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- "Il decennio finisce oggi."
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I wish duolingo would show the dates of the comments. I am writing this exactly on the 1st of Jan 2020 at 7:12pm. Happy new year!
I plan on saying this line at 11:59pm on New Year's in 2019
<h1>Kappa</h1>
Ah! So you think this decade will end in 2019 not 2020? That opens up a whole new debate . . .
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Although "is over" looks like a present simple tense it actually means "has finished" which indicates present-state reached in the past. In Italian this would be "è finito" (or possibly "ha finito"), whereas in this sentence we have "finisce" which is present tense and thus should be translated as "finishes/ends" or possibly "is finishing" / "is ending"
the pronunciation of ¨decennio" is awful even after many tries could not understand
Correct! I have to agree with you! The ethemology of the word decennium from the Latin is "decennis" and the ethemology of decade is "decas" from the late Latin. Saying that which one has more similarities??!!!
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I don't hear the "i" of "oggi" pronounced. Will s.o. pls give me the rules on pronunciation of vowels at ends of words?
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I think part of a good language-learning technique is to learn whole phrases and a good and natural way to do it is when you are able to imagine a situation in which you can use that phrase. It's true that translating a phrase like "the decade ends today" helps us practice the words we've learnt, but Duolingo, i would argue, is wasting an great opportunity for us to better our language capacity by insisting on using such useless phrases where imagination is not provoked. Yeah but still, Duolingo is my favourite language-learning app there is! ;)
Absolutely agree with you. When I learned Romanian, I used to lift whole appropriate sentences from my dialogs to use when I was in Romania. I feel these sentences are randomly computer generated with no thought of every day usage.
That would be so accurate 3 days ago a.k.a 31 December 2019.(Scusa niente a che fare con l'italiano)
Im so glad I learned this phrase on January 9th 2020. Ill use it in juat under 10 years...
I'm gonna start a petition to have the official spelling of this word change to "decegno," for aesthetic purposes.
We're ready for five years seven months time in Italy!! Who's in?!!! Reply with your current date!!
Why isn't decennium accepted? It's given as one of the possible translations of decennio.
'Decennio' should be removed from duolingo. It is statisticly like the 15 000th most commonly used word in Italian as well as in English. Clearly not scope for a beginner or even a mildly advanced course.
I can't help humming Taylor Swift's song Long Live..... "It's the end of a decade......"
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I wish I have Duolingo back in 2000, so I had learned to say Il millennio finisce oggi on December 31st, 2000
