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"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.
Is this a particular tense of verb? It doesn't feel like simple present tense to me...
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".
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.
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?
(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.
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.
