"Tutte fanno così."
Translation:They all do that.
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From what I have read, I understand that 'fan' is just short for 'fanno'. I wonder whether this kind of word shortening is still common practice, or was it more so in Mozart's time?
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Sound at the end of "tutte" goes down and it's very hard to hear the vowel — but "Tutti fanno così" is not accepted.
My question as well. It seems with DL that masculine is assumed. If that's the case with Italian in general, no lo so.
If the meaning were "make", you would expect a direct object. "Così" is an adverb, and we normally would not say "He makes well". Rather, we would say "He makes IT well". However, we would say, "He DOES well". So "does" rather than "makes" is the correct English translation for this.
(Btw, in case anyone wonders, it's the singular "does" instead of the plural "do" because the plural subject "tutte" translates into English as the singular "everyone" or "everybody", which therefore require a singular conjugation in the verb.)
Yes, the feminine form is ultra famous, but certainly "tutti" is a correct translation of "all" when no gender is given. And not everyone knows Mozart.
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...and WHY should it relate to Mozart? I know the opera, but thought I was doing a phrase in Italian.
I wrote "All are doing it that way" and reported. Please also report,this discussion is just for exchange of opinions
I translated "They all act that way" to be told that it is wrong and the translation given was "They all do that way." which of course is grammatically incorrect.. Cosi is an adverb and should be translated into English as "thus" or, more colloquially as "that way". It should not in English be translated as an object pronoun.
"Tutte" being specifically feminine, it should be "All women do it. " Which was the point of Mozart's opera
Be careful changing the position of the adjectives, it changes the meaning of the sentence. In the sentence above, tutte modifies 'they', (They all do things). You have changed it to modify 'things' (They do all the things).
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Thanks, Margaret! But così does not mean "things". It means "so", indicating extent or, in this sentence "like that", indicating "that way"..
Cosi is really equivalent to "so / thus / such". However, with the verb "do", they all sound archaic and have over the years been replaced by "(like) this / that". Quello is a demonstrative adjective or pronoun, not an adverb.
What is "bull squeeze"?
Bull squeeze is a way of saying merda di toro without the use of profanity and I still think this translation is full of it.
Are you seeing English to Italian? Because if you aren't, your point is pointless. At the top of my page, I'm given tutte fanno così; that is the question. The translation from così to 'that' is not very good but hardly bs, and quello is not relevant.
More accurate translations include "so do they all" and "they all do so".
Tutte not tutti. Feminine. The phrase is (no doubt deliberately) the exact modern equivalent of Mozart's opera title, Così Fan Tutte. It has nearly as many translations as productions, but the storyline best suggests "All girls are like that".
Even Mozart thought the same thing: Così fan tutte, (ossia La scuola degli amanti)!
I initially wrote, They do all that and of course it was marked wrong, but I couldnt understand why they and do were separated...
When "all" modifies a subject pronoun (e.g. they) it must either follow immediately (they all) or precede with "of" (all of them).
How do ee know this is tutte, and not tutti? It sounds the same when thus guy says it.
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no, tutti is the subject not the object. they all do it, everybody does it, all of them do it. everyone does this. they all do this. etc.
loro fanno tutto. they do it all.
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There is NO reference to Mozart in this sentence, nor is this a music course. (...nor was he Italian...grumble, grumble...!)
Everyone does the same.....my answer, marked wrong. Don´t really see the difference in the phrases......
'they all do that" should also be accepted it has no context so can be translated both ways