"How are you today?"
Translation:Come sta oggi?
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I do not get why do we use sta/stai instead of sei... "come sei oggi" is not correct?
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If it's anything like Spanish, "How you feel or where you are, always use the verb estar." Or, in this case, stare. It's a matter of temporary vs more permanency. Does that make sense?
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Like Spanish, there are two words to express two meanings of being: essere (defines you) and stare ( you at the moment). Examples: Io sono masculino. / Io sto a casa. Io sono Americano / Io sto nel ristorante.
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There is kinda the same particularity in French (if it can help some of you) with the verb aller that can sometimes be used for the same goal as estar and stare. Although we don't have a specific verb to signify this temporary status, we use aller (lit. means "to go") which seems appropriate given its translation. The same goes in English, as you can say "How are you going?" to express the non-permanency.
So i guess if you wanna be picky :
How are you: come sei
How are you going : come stai
I think the familiar form "stai" should be accepted in this exercise.
It was "come state oggi", not "stai" in my example sentence. What's the difference?
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Is "Tu come stai oggi" really incorrect somehow? I was under the impression that the 'tu', while optional, is implied to be part of the sentence anyway.
"Come" already has the meaning of "tu", and in this particular sentence, "Tu come stai oggi" sounds like "You how are you today" in English. I feels wrong!
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As this is a question I think as in Spanish the "tu" should go within the sentence instead of the begining as "Come stai tu oggi?", not sure if it's used that way.
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The only verb choice I was given was "state." --> Come state oggi. I've never seen the verb state before.
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There are two forms of “to be”.1. Essere that defines you in more permanent terms ( I am a woman) -Io sono , Tu sei, lei è, Lori sono, Noi siamo , voi siete) 2. Stare that defines you at the moment ( how are you?) and also means to stay (io sto, tu stai, Lei sta, noi stiamo, voi state and Loro stanno).
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Since this was never introduced, I tried "Come fai" (pulled it up from my childhood memory). Is that wrong? (I left Italy at age 3, so it's not so easy to remember!)
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No. We never say "come fai" to ask how somebody is.
We say "Come stai?" or "Come va?"
