"Today I see better."
Translation:Oggi vedo meglio.
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Interesting fact (Which no one cares about) about the comparison of the adjective "Buono", its irregularity comes from the Latin, "Bonus, a, um" (Good), "Melior, melius" (Better/rather good), "Optimus, a, um" (Best/very good).
"meglio" is actually comparative of "bene" not "buono":
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bene is an adverb and expresses a positive judgment. It modifies a verb. Lei cucina bene ---- Lei cucina meglio
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buono is an adjective that expresses a positive judgment, usually it refers to the aspect of the content, of the quality: Il studente è buono. --- Il studente è migliore.
Sì, I am aware of this, but it still stems from the same stem, "Bene, melius, optime".
- LO studente è migliore / Lo studente è IL migliore < the student is THE best !
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But it's interesting tidbits like this that makes language fascinating for some of us. Thanks. #dontknownolatin?? A lingot sir.
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I think that Ci vedo meglio. should be accepted as well and it is even better in this context because:
vedere → mainly the transitive "to see (an object)" ( i.e. to perceive something with my sight ), and at most formally we could also use it to say "to be able to see" ( ability ) as Duolingo means here;
veder-ci →the intransitive "to be able to see" ( ability ), called "verbo procomplementare" as well as "pronominale" because of the clitic -ci that also changes the syntactic meaning of the simple vedere ( but this particle has many other functions according to the case, be careful )
So the second solution is common and natural for this phrase.
Unless you need to say "I can see better" in English...but I don' t think so because I've found translations where "I see better = Ci vedo meglio", that is to say the modal verb " can" is implicit.
I wonder if you have to capitalize "Io" in Italian like you do in English...
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The pronouns are never elided like that in Italian, only in French. Also, the sound of the «o» in «io» and the one in «oggi» are different.
