"Prima o poi"
Translation:Sooner or later
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literally maybe, but since it's an expression the equivalent in English is "sooner or later"
Think of 'Sooner or later the toast will POP up', and the POP will give you P(rima) O P(oi). I got it wrong and then came up with this mnemonic, which may help.
It is only by reading the remarks here that I can remember "prima o poi": somebody mentioning primo brought up the fact that it was actually prima, which I had not observed at first.
You can get a sense if it is used often by seeing it in context using Reverso Context: http://context.reverso.net/translation/italian-english/prima+o+poi It seems to be used fairly commonly, but a native Italian speaker will have to verify.
Native speaker here, I can confirm it's as common as the English expression
How would anyone know that primo meant sooner. Maybe you should introduce lists of vocabulary for each new section so students don't have to learn from making mistakes. Once again I don't get your educational philosophy. Negative learning makes it much harder. I would also love to get a response from you otherwise why have a section for posts??
Prima doesn't mean sooner - the English sentence and the Italian translation are common expressions, so the sentence in this example isn't meant to be translated literally
First and then is the liberal translation. Why does duo lingo translate as first and later? If firs and later, it seems that should be prima o dopo? Comments?
