"Is college too expensive?"
Translation:L'università è troppo costosa?
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I don't think Italian does that with questions. I've learned that they always state yes/no questions as statements, and just change the intonation to make it a question.
Yet the pull down menu capitalized it instead of the normal lower case, In the past, that was done when Duolingo wanted the verb as the initial word.
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If this is a question, why was "è l'università troppo costosa?" rejected ?
Because università is a feminine word, and you should use the feminine adjective forms, costosa or cara.
If I'm not mistaken college is not the same as university (higher level of education than collage). I know there are differences depending on the country, so my question is : Is there a difference in Italy between college and university ?
Why is not "troppa" used here? I was dinged on this. I thought the genders had to match.
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Because this is the adverb "troppo" which is invariable. The adjective "troppo" is the one that matches with the noun. Examples:
- Ci sono troppi gatti (adj.)
- C'è troppo zucchero nella torta (adj.)
- La finestra è troppo alta (adv.)
- C'è troppa gente in casa (adj.) ... and so on
Note that this also applies to "molto".
But college doesn't mean university where I live... College = high school Is "l'Università" high school?
Could anyone help me to understand, what's wrong with 'il liceo è troppo caro?' Grazie!
