"Sono tutto orecchi."
Translation:I am all ears.
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I know this is definitely an English manner of speech, but is it the same in Italian as well?
Yes! I entered this "comment area' just to write the same, but from the point of view of an Italian native: is this tipicalky italian FRASE IDIOMATICA possible to translate in English?
La frase: "[To be] all ears" è molto comune in inglese. Se Duolingo fosse corretta, allora potrebbe un idioma diretto tra inglese e italiano.
Never thought "Ich bin ganz Ohr" could exist in other languages tool...
I'm impressed that we might realize, by reading these comments, that this is common idiom in at least English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian, and Chinese.
It's idiomatic and means that one is 'ready' even 'eager' to hear what someone has to say.
Why is "ears" conjugated here as "orecchi" when it is usually conjugated as "orecchie"?
In this particular idiomatic expression, "orecchi" is more common. In general, "orecchio/i" (masculine) and "orecchia/e" (feminine) are considered interchangeable, but for some reason the masculine "orecchio" is more common in the singular and the feminine "orecchie" is more common in the plural.
In portuguese we say an expression "sou todo ouvidos" for the situation "I pay attention..." I don't know if it is the same situation of this exercise.
Yes it's the same.
Same in Spanish too, as a matter of fact... Soy toda oídos
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I elided 'all' and 'ears' and wrote 'sono tutt' orecchi' why is this deemed incorrect when I have seen the sentence written this way before in another lesson on Duolingo ?