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- "Vendo frigoriferi, capisci?"
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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.
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... ;)
Anything sounds devious with "capisci"...
"LE MIE SCARPE SONO ROSA, CAPISCI?!"
"VOGLIO TORTA AL FRAGOLA, CAPISCI?!"
"È UNA BAMBINA, CAPISCI?!"
523
+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.
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."
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...
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 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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Feels like a movie scene: I sell refrigerators, only refrigerators, no damn iPhones or iPads, understand you idiot?!!!
-I want to buy socks. -But this is a refrigerator store. -So... you sell socks? -NO!...
- 333
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
- 447
"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".
Lmao. Damn. Someone is firm about what they're selling! Yessir / yes ma'am.
So what if I don't understand? Would I say 'cose sono frigoriferi?' 'Cos' è frigorifero?' 'Cos' è il frigorifero?'
- 523
I assume you'd either say:
"Cosa sono i frigoriferi?" (cosa with an 'a' not an 'e'.)
or say:
"Cos'è un frigorifero?"
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?"
- 423
A classical coen movie line. He is tellin' the truth, but cops never listen. No worries, he's gonna be fine
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.
Answering this task, I have clicked on "vendo" and the second suggested translation was "sell one's body". Even if it is used in a particular sense, it is unacceptable to use it in the language studying app.
- 1779
Why was my answer marked wrong when the only difference is I wrote "you all" instead of "you". It looks to me like the speaker is addressing more than one person. I know English uses only one word for both, but in many of these lessons you all has been used to distinguish plural from singular.
- 1779
Does Capisci usually end in "i" when speaking to only one person? I thought it was "e".
- 523
The present conjugations of capire (to understand):
| Pronouns | Capire | |
|---|---|---|
| io | capisco | |
| tu | capisci | |
| lui\lei | capisce | |
| noi | capiamo | |
| voi | capite | |
| loro | capiscono |
Here you can check verb conjugations:
https://www.italian-verbs.com/
This is the more formal 2nd person singular, which takes the form of the 3rd person (he/she/it). The idea being, you don't want to presume familiarity by using 'you'.
