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Just to help you fellows ou there learning this difficult language... as a native speaker I can adfirm you that elision is totally optional but nowadays we tend to use it with some expression such as "c'è" or "cos'è?": you will never find written anywhere " ci è" etc..
Apart from that it is gradually becoming unusual to put the elision when the last vowel of a word and the first of the one which follows.are different: whilst senz'acqua is pretty usual, senz'effetto, for example, is more easy to.be found in literature than in casual writings. Remember always not to.put the apostrophe.when there is "troncamento": e.g. qual è? Hope I helped
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IS the apostrophe essential? I am muddled over when it's necessary and when optional!
me too but as far as i know you drop the final vowel and put an apostrophe when the next word's vowel is the same as the one you dropped. senza acqua => senz'acqua
It should be correct to also interpret tha as: "It is NOT possible to live without water"
to a native english speaker both sentences MEAN exactly the same thing but "impossible" is the literal translation
They mean the same in Italian too, but they are not grammatically equivalent.
