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"Art is never going to die."
Translation:El arte no va a morir nunca.
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If you use nunca early in sentence, you dont need the "no". El arte nunca va a morir.
And yet, I must emphasize, El arte no nunca va a morir. ;) Viva la artista en todas nosotras.
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Does Duolingo know that "Art" is a man's name in English? So this could have been "Art nunca va a morir" too. Improbable that Art is never going to die, but hey, it's improbable that the owl cleaned the cow's ears, too!
Yep, I thought Art was a man. I debated, took a chance and was wrong. Oh, pooh.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Someone please tell me. To me, Duo's translation would more accurately be translated as, Art isn't ever going to die. I think a better translation would be, El arte nunca va a morir. Is this wrong?
Nunca does mean never - and it is used at the end of the sentence - El arte no va a morir nunca.
I am so confused, why is morir used and not the conjugated version muere?
pambjorlo- with the verb IR a, the second verb is always infinitive, yo voy a comer, (to eat) él va a cantar, (to sing)
We actually do the same thing in English. The third person conjugation of to die is dies with the 's' on the end. So we say "he dies" (Él muere) but when we use it in conjunction with "going to" (Ir a) we don't conjugate it. "He is going to die." (Él va a morir) It's harder to pick out because we don't conjugate as much as Spanish does, but it's the same thing. Same with other examples like "She sings" versus "She can sing" (Ella canta/Ella puede cantar)
In other words "va a muere" is equivalent to "going to dies".
With the conjugation, you'd be saying "Art is never dying" not "Art is never going to die."
