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- "The others never have time."
"The others never have time."
Translation:Le altre non hanno mai tempo.
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15 Luglio 2019. Oggi ho trovato la tua risposta sul perché le altre siano usate al posto di gli altri molto utili, grazie.
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How do we know " the others " are not masculine? I know I got it incorrect because I used "I" instead of "gli", but would I have gotten it correct if I assumed it was masculine and used "gli""?
Why must it be tempo with no article here? Il tempo is marked as wrong.
is this always the case? how would you translate "time is a tool you can put on the wall"? i would think that it would need the definite article to function as a subject.
because that position of "mai" doesn't sound correct for Italian speakers. You could say "Gli altri non hanno tempo, mai" or "Mai, gli altri hanno tempo" or even "Gli altri mai hanno tempo" (very rarely) but I never heard "Gli altri MAI non hanno tempo", I mean "mai" before "non".
"mai" normally goes immediately after the verb or auxiliary, eg: non hanno mai tempo, non hanno mai avuto tempo. As a learner it's a good idea to stick to that.
When people want to emphasise the "mai" it can be put elsewhere : mai non hanno avuto tempo.
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I still don't understand why il tempo is not accepted. There is no answer to the same comment made a year ago.
"L'amore fa passare il tempo, il tempo fa passare l'amore". I don't think that's about the weather, is it?
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It seems to me il tempo=tempo in this sentence and accordingly should be an acceptable response. Although il tempo can mean "the weather", that is not a reason to mark it wrong. Neither is the absence of the word "the" in the English sentence.
