"This scared me the most."
Translation:Questo mi ha fatto spaventare di più.
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Why "fare" is obligatory here? ...mi ha spaventato...was not accepted. I think spaventare means by itself "to scare", doesn't it? I understand "fare" is necessary I express "to scare" with "paura" (mi ha fatto paura), but I don't see why spaventare can not stand alone.
I have the same question. Why "questo mi ha spaventato di piu" is not correct?
I answered the same, but then I thought about it... 'Mi ha spaventato le ragazze'... 'I have scared the girls.' As opposed to, 'Mi ha fatto spaventare'... 'I have made scared' (been made scared). Think in English, you don't 'to scare' when you 'get scared'. In Italian, it seems you make weather and emotions.
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I think both "mi ha spaventato" and "mi ha fatto spaventare" should work. The difference being that the first is using the verb "spaventare" and the second seems to be using the verb "spaventarsi" (be scared).
As Italian I can tell you that even the correct answer "Questo mi ha fatto spaventare di più" doesn't sound good in Italian..I'm doing the reverse tree for my English, and even for me it was difficult to find a good expression that sounds good and at the same time is correct for Duolingo... It was better "Questa è LA COSA CHE mi ha fatto spaventare di più".. meaning literally "This is THE THING THAT scared me the most" but I don't know if it would be correct for Duolingo...
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Hi Vastasio, as an Italian can you explain why "questo mi spaventava di più" is wrong ? why is " ha fatto" needed in this expression and is there a subtle difference in italian between "fare paura" and "spaventare" or do they have the same meaning ? hope you can help grazie
Hi Terence.. "Questo mi spaventava di più" means "This scared me more (than another thing)".. It implies a comparison... Fare paura and Spaventare have more or less the same meaning...
Another question. I know this is three years later, but maybe you or another native speaker can answer.
Why is "Questo mi ha spaventato di più" wrong? There is a thread above this, but none of the answers seem very conclusive.
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The only answer I have for you is spaventare seems to require the aux verb fare. To scare someone is to make them scared. I couldn't tell you why it doesn't function like other verbs. Just that's the way it is. I know that's not satisfying. If I learn anything more, I'll pass it on.
I totally agree with carol, your answer is great. In languages some things are just the way they are, exceptions to rules with no specific explanation.
Thank you. Your answer is sweet and simple, and after scrolling through all the complex explanations, I finally understand. Keep it simple, folks!
Not really. He is not, I think, addressing the difference between spaventare and fare spaventare, but between the uses of di piu to signify "more" and "most".
His initial comment used fare spaventare but when asked what was wrong with questo mi spaventato di piu he took this to be a question about the use of di piu.
I don't think he commented about spaventare, though he did say (in response to an explicit query) that it meant more or less the same as fare paura. (I don't know why the questioner asked about that rather than fare spaventare itself, which would have been more directly relevant and is igpri's question here)
Another question for you vastasio, if that's okay. I see a few other people have asked something similar, below, and I think your post above may be touching on it. When does "di piu" mean "more" and when does it mean "the most"? I thought it was only ever a comparison, but it sounds like the rest of the sentence determines which it means? Thanks!!
Hi Mary...you understand if "di più" means MORE or THE MOST by the context...when it means MORE you have always a comparison...so, if you are talking about the film Terminator, you can say "Robocop mi è piaciuto di più= I liked Robocop more (than Terminator)"...If you are talking about films in general, you will say "Robocop è QUELLO CHE che mi è piaciuto di più= Robocop is the one that i liked most"...
So, when "di più" means MOST, you will find something like Quello che, La cosa che, il film che, etc....The one that, the thing that, the film that...
I hope it's clear, but if you have other doubts, please ask:) I think it's something easier to understand with practice than with theory, and that if you read a text in italian and find "di più", you can easily recognize what is the meaning
I don't understand why 'questo mi ha fatto paura...' is not accepted here. Is there some linguistic subtlety I'm missing?
Ibam very curious too, can someone answer Sureed's question please. Why is paura not right in this sentence?
Fece is the 3rd person Remote Past (passato remoto) of the verb fare. Thsi tense is considered a little old fashioned these days and you will (almost) never heard it spoken. However, you'll see the tense a lot in books written about the past.
Questo mi ha spaventato di più works in Reverse Context, but seems to be wrong here. Why?
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Does spaventare always require an auxillary verb ? Is one scared (passato prossimo with 'avare') or is one MADE scared (using 'fare' as the auxillary verb). Or do we just ditch it all, be brave Italians, never be scared, and forget this verb?
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That would be continuous in the past, as in 'This was frightening me most", I answered 'Questo mi spaventò di più.' and it was not accepted. I think it should have been.
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I think the master teanslation by Duolingo seems use power over reason; language can never be dependent on one sole solution! O, sancta simplitas!
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Questo = THIS (in general, = anything or everything, "this thing" - you don't know what). Questa = only "this female person", "this woman", "this girl". It can't be used in a general sense.
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I think that questa is also used for any female object or term. For example: questa canzone - this song questa cena - this dinner
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Not ALSO, but ONLY. Feminine, grammatically, as in Italian the objects have "gender", too.
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also is referred to your sentence. unlike your explanation below, in your explanation above you mentioned ONLY "female person" - so also is in addition to the "Female person", also the "Female object" of any kind. Just to make it clear - I only saw your other reply - after I wrote. ciao!
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I think it was clear that I AGREED with you.
I'm also tired of people who ask the same questions again anda again.
If you see my first explanation about this on the same page, you would see that objects, or things, are included. So, why repeating? Ciao.
DL translates it vice-versa. Google Transl answered: "questo mi ha fatto spaventare di più = this scared me more" "questo mi ha spaventato di più = this scared me the most " Who to believe in ?
Why is "questo mi ha fatto paura di piu" wrong? Isnt paura and spanventare the same?
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I thougth "più" meant "more" and "il più" meant "most". So why wouldn't it be "del più" in this sentence?
il/la più means "the most" but is only used to qualify an adjective (or more rarely an adverb): il più vicino = "the nearest". It precedes the adjective. If the adjective itself qualifies a noun then the noun comes between the il/la and the più: la citta più bella del mondo = "the most beautiful city in the world".
But to qualify a verb, use di più AFTER the verb to signify either "more" or "most": which it is should be clear from the context. (If it isn't, the sentence may need to be reworked to make it so: see vasasio's useful comments above).
mi ha fatto paura wasn't accepted, however one of dl hints to translate "to scare" is (fare paura)
What is the difference between, Mi ha fatto paura vs Mi ha fatto spaventare?
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I am really fed up with the dictionary hints being unhelpful plus the lack of explanation.
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DeepL tells me the translation is "Questo mi ha spaventato di più.", so we isn't this accepted by DL?