"Vendo frigoriferi, capisci?"
Translation:I sell refrigerators, do you understand?
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I imagine some scene from a movie, when under heavy rain, a man with tears in his eyes shouts that sentence at someone. It really is hilarious.
Stai parlando con me? stai parlando con me? Beh! Non vedo nessun altro qui.
It reminds me of the mafia...i can see a scene where he has so many fridges(to keep the bodies of all the guys he wacked) and the police ask him why he has so many fridges and thats his respond
You have such a nice tiger in your zoo... It would be such a shame if something happened to him... ;)
Presumably a mafia idiom. Much like the 'My snake... eats your cakes. Capisce?'
It sounds like it's taken out of Monty Python sketch. Imagine John Cleese shouting this sentence. That's why it's hilarious. :-)
Anything sounds devious with "capisci"...
"LE MIE SCARPE SONO ROSA, CAPISCI?!"
"VOGLIO TORTA AL FRAGOLA, CAPISCI?!"
"È UNA BAMBINA, CAPISCI?!"
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+1 for the all too true humoristic observation.
But:
"Smetti di scrivere tutto in maiuscolo, capisci? "
;-)
You can put an asterisk (*) before and after what you want italicized.
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"la formica è nello zucchero, capisci!" "mettiamo lo zucchero nella torta al cioccolato, capisci!"
A sentence every person says at least once in their life. Thank you duolingo!
Honestly, who can think of a situation where you wouldn't need to say this? :P
"I sell refrigerators, got it! Not washing machines, not pianos, and I don't sell none a them fancy Picasso paintings. Re-fridge-er-a-tors! And if you don't like it, you can hit your bull for all I care."
The fact that when i pressed on the word vendo, the and translation says "to sell ones body" makes this even more ironic to me
Ummm... does anyone notice that one of the translations under vendo is: (I) Sell one's body? Hmmmm..... And by the way, this is one of the most fun threads I've read so far.
It's a sunny day at the refrigerator store in Palermo. It's a sweltering day, probably peaking at 95 degrees and it's not even 12 o clock yet. Your first customer comes in, seeing that you sell refrigerators, asks to buy ice, because clearly where there are refrigerators there is ice, isn't there?
Except he doesn't know they're all unplugged, sitting quietly as they await a loving family to take them home, and fill them up to the brim with fresh produce and fish. But now the situation starts to become very awkward. You inform the man in your broken Italian "Non vendo il ghiaccio," but he doesn't seem to understand that you don't have ice. Again, he pleads for ice, since most other shop owners have closed up to enjoy the sunny day. Again you clarify that you do not sell ice and try to indicate that there aren't even any electric outlets to plug in the refrigerators, and again he ignores your broken Italian, so that he may potentially cool down with the ice that you are probably hoarding to yourself. Pestering you constantly, you can feel yourself lose patience. Finally, out of pure frustration, you yell "VENDO FRIGORIFERI, CAPISCI? ADESSO, FUORI SUBITO!" "Scusca mi, signora!" He squeaks as he scuttles out the door, only to be never seen in your refrigerator shop again.
Throttles him. He's dead on the floor. "Capisco? I understand the Refrigerator Vendors' guild just lost another member."
Why do i feel like this is a threat. Like - hey! You. I see youre new in the neighborhood, i see you buying a lot of wholsale appliances, wanna open a shop.?!?!??? "Vendo frigoriferi, capisci?" He says squishing his cigar on my front doorstep...
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm really looking forward to going to Italy, finding a refrigerator salesman and repeatedly asking him if he sells shoes, hats, lemons, chairs etc, just to get this response
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Wow the replies here are so interesting. I pictured someone being bothered with questions who finally snaps, "I sell refrigerators, you understand?" At the bothersome person or profiling cop. It's always good to remember how people associate you tho
I answered "I sell refrigerators, do you understand?". I was told that another correct answer is "I sell refrigerators, do you understand?"
20 Settembre 2018
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A classical coen movie line. He is tellin' the truth, but cops never listen. No worries, he's gonna be fine
I will be muttering this under my breath once I learn the word for "fireplaces." Best one yet. I think it all the time, people come in for light bulbs sometimes...
Lmao. Damn. Someone is firm about what they're selling! Yessir / yes ma'am.
Feels like a movie scene: I sell refrigerators, only refrigerators, no damn iPhones or iPads, understand you idiot?!!!
It's much more Death of a Salesman than mafiosa, I think, especially if you translate it - as I did (accepted by Duolingo) - as "I sell refrigerators, you understand?" It's only a 'y'understand?' from there to Willie Lowman's lips. Possibly the most literary translation we've undertaken so far.
So what if I don't understand? Would I say 'cose sono frigoriferi?' 'Cos' è frigorifero?' 'Cos' è il frigorifero?'
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I assume you'd either say:
"Cosa sono i frigoriferi?" (cosa with an 'a' not an 'e'.)
or say:
"Cos'è un frigorifero?"
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Why does this sound like something a guy with a thick Brooklyn accent would say whilst being threatening?
"Understood?" was rejected but is a better translation in English English at least.
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"you know" should be accepted, because "you know" iis like "isn't it" a grammatical indicator of a tag question, or almost an interjection. e.g. "He is an idiot, you know" or "He is an idot, isn't he".
A wierd sentence and i think it is just as correct to put the question first
-I want to buy socks. -But this is a refrigerator store. -So... you sell socks? -NO!...
If we are talking in short form, then we should translate in short form as a possible option. "capisci?"-->"you understand?" If you don't put the "do" then they mark you wrong. "capisci?"
They are out of money an have to sell the20 year old fridge. But he is the only appliance dealer in town so its a good deal
