"Aspettano finché non lo trovo."

Translation: They wait until I find it.

[xyphax]

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 ...

[ScottGud]

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"

http://www.wordreference.com/iten/finch%C3%A9

[shanoodle]

Is "non" incorrectly added here? I wrote the poor sounding, "they wait until I don't find it" but was marked wrong because the answer is, "they wait until I find it."

[Chris123456]

"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

[Ispirac]

I also fall with that.

[garagonp]

Me too :(

[AnthonyDiNome0]

why non in this sentence

[LilyCamille01]

I tend to think of this as "They wait unless I don't find it"- the message being that they will wait until I find it, and then they will stop waiting.

[Louise304133]

I understand this but how would you actually say "until i don't find it" in Italian?

[Tina607664]

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