"Poi ci sentirai ridere."

Translation: Then you will hear us laugh.

[FiorenzaMi2]

Poi= after. puoi= can

[Jan534792]

Why is 'laughing' not accepted, as 'laugh' is not the strictly correct translation either?

[Marninger]

Poi ci = Then us
sentirai = you will hear
ridere = (to) laugh

Then, us, you will hear, laugh ~
Then you will hear us laugh.

[sarahdavey]

I wonder why 'Later you will hear us laughing' is not acceptable.

[AntonyHodgson]

I think it's because 'poi' has more of a sense of following by consequence, not just in time. If I wanted to convey that something would happen later, I would tend to think more of using a phrase such as 'piu tardi' or 'dopo'. Here, I'm imagining the speaker having just described something funny that will happen soon. When it does, then they will laugh.

[delleterre]

Would "poi" be "then" in the sense of "as a consequence of something discussed immediately prior", or in the sense of "subsequently"?

[garrypas]

Really hate this one, I understand what's going on but it's so hard for an English speaker without a lot of practice. It translates approximately word for word as "One can us you will hear to laugh". Uggh

[swampsparrow]

No, word for word in English would be "Then us you will hear laugh."

[PolarBear667564]

Hmm.. why isn't the literal Italian translation "then you will hear that we laugh"???

[Marcus38437]

The pronoun "ci" means "us" in this context, not "that"

[Justinnnnnnnnn]

Poi, not puoi. I made the same mistake.

[Marninger]

Poi = then
ci = us
sentirai = you will hear (sing. 2:nd person 'futuro semplice' of sentire)
ridere = (to) laugh

Then you will hear us laugh.

[lina1519]

Then you will be able to hear laughing. - why is not accepted? Sentirci = to be able to hear

[ChrisUndrh]

i don't know, but i think there could be an ambiguity with the ci. I think it could mean 'there', you know, there might be an incident in a Trappist monastery, someone slips comically and then you'll hear laughter there. It is also used for 'it', 'that'- can't think off top of head of confusion cases with these, but definitely the 'there' meaning is not excluded. Or is it?

[-em-dash]

I thought it was: Then you will feel like laughing ABOUT IT. Yikes! Maybe that would be closer to: Poi ci TE sentirai ridere. (???) But I agree, "ci" is always a stumper.

[Diamondswagboyz]

HAHHAJAHAHAHJASH

[SteveKillick]

Next you will hear us laugh? No, apparently not.

[Marninger]

I think you are close as what happens then has to follow and come after/next to something that did happen before but . . .

poi = then
doppo = after
prossimo/seguente ~ next