"Come fai a sapere che sei fuori gara?"
Translation:How can you tell that you are out of the race?
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I think this sentence is way too complicated at this level. I had some previous knowledge of Italian, yet even I found it too difficult.
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Is this a particular tense of verb? It doesn't feel like simple present tense to me...
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No, it IS in presente indicativo, but it's sort of an idiom. Duolingo don't usually teaches idioms, and the tips are almost useless in cases lilke this.
Duolingo is actually full with idioms, but I agree the tips in these cases are pretty useless
The most literal translation could be: How (come) do you (fai) know (a sapere). Fare doesn't usually support an infinitive, I think it does only in "come fai a".
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I like to think of it literally as 'How do you manage to know that you are out of the race'.
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I used "how do you know". I had the "out of the race" part incorrect, though, so I don't know if that was acceptable.
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But there is no "the" (la) for race (gara). I think the correct translation is: How do you know that you are out of race? Without "the". Any ideas?
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I got this right, but I think it was more by good luck than anything else! :D
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(American English speaker) In English, you need the article. In Italian, no.
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This is wrong. "Come fai a sapere" translates to "how are you going to know" because "sapere" is to know and not "dire", to tell.
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I definitely had to Google this one as I ready it twenty times and understood it less each time. Luckily, Google translate was spot on. Good for them.
