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If you want to save yourself a lot of heartache with negatives in Italian, spend the one minute it takes to read through this page
http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare141a.htm
Ironically, it does not address finché non ...
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more literally it means "they wait as long as I do not find it" where in English we would say "they wait until I find it"
"Finché non" is a confusing construction that does not imply a negative. The "non" is just there to trick you ;) Check this - http://duolingo.com/#/comment/345146
I am not going to get out of this loop of getting this "wrong!" It wants me to type the italian i hear and my keyboard will not type the accent over the e in finque ( i have chosen the italian button on my keyboard). I've tried to speak the words and have the "keyboard" record them, but they only type up very strange translations