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Same! But I guess we can all agree that without knowing a bit of Spanish beforehand this would have been a lot harder
xD that is funny cos i thought the same but it's not...all my years studying spanish (since birth) and now it's worthless
In English, 'let's go' and 'let us go' are nor really interchangeable. Their meanings are different in everyday use
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I had to scratch my head for a minute before it came to me, ahha! Of course they can be used differently. Imho "let's go" and "let us go" are usually interchangable. I know I'm an odd duck but I sometimes use the phrase "Is everyone ready? Ok, let us depart to..." Naturally I also say "let's go."
Correct! This is one case where the contraction changes the meaning. When I was a kid I didn't even know that "let's" was two words!
I'm reporting...although Duo might be thinking let us go is like directed at an evil villain or something :)
"Let us go" could be asking for permission. If you say andiamo, we're going! It's already happening and there is no question about it.
"Let's a go!" - Super Mario. Does he say "Andiamo!" in Italian versions of Super Mario 64? Lol
Although that would be awesome, Charles Martinez only voices Mario in English but sometimes Italian babble.
So technically it means: "We are going." but it can be used as "Let's go." Am I correct?
It can mean either. In Italian, andiamo can be used for the simple present (ie. we go), the present continuous (ie. we are going) or the imperative (ie. let's go). This is true for all verbs in the plural first person conjugation (ie. We....) that the imperative use the same form as the present tense.
When I hover over this new word, the first definition is "(we) keep going", yet "we keep going" is incorrect. Strange, or am I missing something?
"we keep going" is actually wrong. Andiamo can mean either "we go" or "let's go!"
Keep going implies an action started and to be continued whereas let's go implies starting from zero. So andare means to go, hence Let's go! It could also be translated as Come on! Keep going would be Anda avanti!
This has happened to me no end of times :( I'm not sure if it's done so as to provide you with a clue so that you have to think more or if duolingo Italian is just still full of bugs and will get better as time goes on. Best advice is to use them cautiously at least for the time being.
We go = andiamo; he goes = va? Is it the same word? What are the other forms in present?
Yes, it's an irregular verb.
andare = to go vado = I go vai = you go va = he/she/it goes andiamo = we go andate = you (plural) go vanno = they go
Sorry, that was clearer when I wrote it but the formatting's been messed up. Hope you can understand it!
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Just put double new lines and it becomes:
andare = to go
vado = I go
vai = you go
va = he/she/it goes
andiamo = we go
andate = you (plural) go
vanno = they go
More about formatting here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/2591660
Thank you for conjugating (and providing the infinitive). Very helpful on new irregular verbs!!!
Thank you for giving us the conjugation! I wish Duo would do that upfront in their notes especially on these irregular verbs. I didn't even recognize that "vado" came from "andare" lol
I just added "andare" to my Google Keep notes titled "Verbs: Travel - come, go, leave, arrive, depart". I suppose typing them in this format helps me to recognize the declention pattern, and the variant sentence constructions.
I look up the definitions on http://en.bab.la/dictionary/italian-english/ and the conjugations on http://www.coniugazione.it/.
Hope this helps with your e-learning on Duolingo.
Cheers!
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andare
• [ go; move; walk ]
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{ andare } irr. conj. rule #1 -are
INDICATIVO PRESENTE
• io vado
• tu vai
• lui / lei / Lei va
• noi andiamo
• voi andate
• loro vanno
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--> l'uomo va.
--> Andiamo.
--> Andiamo in montagna! Ma tu, sai sciare?
•----------•
andare {verb}
to go · to perform · to ride · to float · to drift · to fit on · to go along · to pan out · to pass off · to ride out · to toddle off
•----------•
Really? The translation says "we keep going" and yet I was marked incorrect and had to start over completely.
My teacher used to address the class by saying, "Andiamo, va bene" when we were moving on in a lesson. Is this common in normal conversations?
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Is any one having problems with sound. There is no sound where I am to write what I hear. It is intermittent.
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Here's an example where "-iamo" translates to both "We [do]" and "Let's [do]" (simple present and imperative/command).
So "Andiamo." can translate to both:
- We're going.
- Let's go.
Ihovered and nothing happened. It's a new word, yet it didn't have the dottedgreen line under it to designate a new word! What gives!!
Sometimes I feel like verb conjugation in Italian is just too much. A big chunk of verbs just sound like completely different words when you conjugate them. Take this for example... Io vado, Voi andate ?? why do you hate us :(
Without an apostrophe "lets go" has a different meaning , as in the releasing of something/someone - While standing on the bridge, the girl lets go of the stick into the river...
I think that would be partiamo (partire - to leave) or andiamo via.- to go away/leave.
In Portuguese we have: walk = andar/caminhar; go = ir do we have such a difference in Italian?
I mean "andar" is like walking from A to B by foot, but "caminhar" refer most to the exercise that you do by waking than from where to where you are going. "Ir" (go) is general for any transport you may use..
I have written down We're going., let's go. about six times already, and they still will not accept the answer they have give me. Therefore the translation is incorrect.
It could also mean 'let's go' or we are going. It's not imperative to use 'we're'!
I am typing the write answer but it's not letting me pass. Why is it doing this to me?
That's the 2nd time I was graded wrong. I said "Let's go" and the answer is Let's go"
Andiamo also means "we go" (literal translation) but it comes up as an incorrect answer
Because Italians (and Americans) are weird in the sense that literal translations aren't used in English often. Such as "ho fame" (to have hunger) when in reality it's "I'm hungry"
It's not really about whether it's literal or not. Andiamo has a dual meaning. Literally it translates as we go and that is also a valid use of it in Italian. However it also used idiomatically as let's go which is also a valid use of the word. Both answers are correct.
Wait, this says "we're going", but the questions answer was "lets go". Is "andiamo" a question, or a statement?
I put let's go as my answer and it came up as wrong, the correct answer being Let's go !?!?!?
And the translation given in the "red box", is "let's go". So, Which is the correct answer? Let's go or we're going?
I do not get this one! is it "let's go" or "we are going" can I use them interchangeably?
