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- "Is college too expensive?"
"Is college too expensive?"
Translation:L'università è troppo costosa?
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So inversions don't work at all? I got dinged for putting è first.
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.
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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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i think you can invert the verb, i am sure i have heard this on the Michel Thomas tapes. I'm going to check on this and report back.
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That is different from question inversion.
In English, we often put the verb before the subject to clearly indicate we are asking a question. Italian doesn't do that.
However, Italian does allow shifting the subject to the end of the sentence so that Subject+Verb+Clauses and Verb+Clauses+Subject are both acceptable. Tom419655, you did the latter.
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 ?
My partner (who is Italian) says in Italy, 'collegio' usually refers to a specific, specialist institution (often a boarding school). It wouldn't normally be used either in the American sense, to refer to university, or in the British sense, to refer to an educational institution for 16-18 year-olds (although the latter would be more likely).
And it still is a question, Ruth. DL is still using "universita" to mean a college. A university is a bunch of colleges managed by the same institution, and I don't see any way around that fact.
Because università is a feminine word, and you should use the feminine adjective forms, costosa or cara.
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".
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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!
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"Liceo" is a high school geared towards preparing students for college. This question asks for "college."
Otherwise, your sentence is good.
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in the states a university is a collection of colleges. Colleges tend to be undergraduate schools only, while universities have graduate programs.
'Liceo' would make sense to a British person translating this sentence because 'college' in the UK refers to the 16-18 phase of education, not university. However, Duo is only considering the American meaning of 'college' here.
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I agree to a point, but it's not quite the same for us oldies. Before the expansion of universities (and before them polytechnics)most people in the UK did go to college for 18+ education. My father went to Teacher Training college in 1946, aged 22 after he was demobbed from the RAF and my sister went to Teacher Training College in the seventies. Places like North Kent College offer degree level courses today. A friend's child has just graduated from a Further Education College with a degree in Electrical Engineering and a fraction of the debt he would have had going away to university. Although the F. E. sector has been run down, it's still there.
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So, what is the difference in italy between a college and a university ? In england a college is something you go to after high school and a university a higher level. Please help. Could this be collegio ?
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Colleges and universities are very different educational establishments in the UK, not interchangeable as in this example.
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It would never be correct. Italian never uses the English question structure Verb + Subject + whatever.
Italian occasionally uses Verb + clause/direct object/whatever + Subject to emphasize that the Subject and no one else is the one doing Verb.
