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"You can get there in thirty minutes."
Translation:Ci puoi arrivare in trenta minuti.
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1834
"Tra" has a meaning of arriving "within" the period of time stated. When I am in Italy and someone asks me when I will be arriving, I nearly always says "tra trenta minuti" (or whatever maximum period of time left until I arrive). I'm not a native speaker, but I would use "in" if I were being more precise, i.e. I would say "in trenta minuti" to mean I would arrive in 30 minutes (not before, like if I on a train and I know the time it will be arriving) and "tra trenta minuti" to mean I would be there sometime within the next half hour, perhaps earlier. Again I am not a native speaker, so I welcome corrections.
1834
And Kathy, I have recommended this book on prepositions many times here on Duo: "Le Preposizione Italiane" by Alessandro De Giuli.
1190
You can = puoi / potete
get there = arrivarci
in = in (or within = tra)
thirty minutes = trenta minuti
Puoi/potete arrivarci in/tra trenta minuti.
or
Ci puoi/potete arrivare in/tra trenta minuti
755
I agree. Also, I can't claim to have been brave. I just happened to use 'fra' and then looked at the comments out of curiosity. :)
518
I think the Italian translation is not correct. Is it not better to translate it as follow "You can get there in thirty minutes."="Puoi arrivarci in trenta minuti." or "Ci puoi arrivare in trenta minuti."="You can get us in thirty minutes."?
518
Hello German Teacher, thank you for your detailed and understandable explanation. That has brought me further. There is a Lingot for that.
518
Thanks to everyone for the good comments - especially Mr. Marninger and LynnSearn. Thanks to your help, I realized that "ci" is part of the transitive verb "arrivarci". Before that I tried to guess what the "ci" should be at the beginning of the sentence and thought it was "we" Only after your help did I understand that "Ci puoi arrivare in trenta minuti." or "Puoi arrivarci in trenta minuti." really means "You can get there in thirty minutes". :-))
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Mt question required me to order words into the correct sentence, Duo said You have a typo. Puoi arrivare lì in trenta minuti. I could not write that as I didn't have "Li" in my words,