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"Anche i francesi bevono caffè."
Traduzione:Even the French drink coffee.
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perche' e' cosi' :) Penso sia dovuto ad una questione di eufonia (Frenchs e' difficile da pronunciare)
Se hai scritto proprio così come hai trascritto, è perchè hai sbagliato scrivendo coffè, in inglese caffè si traduce coffee.
Una parola sull'uso di even o also.
La differenza sta nel senso che si dà alla frase.
Se la frase significa che: persino i francesi bevono..., si deve usare Even (che traduce appunto persino)
Altrimenti si può usare Also.
In questo caso, mancando un riferimento al significato, penso che possa andare bene anche Also.
Ciao PieroSamp. Anch'io lo pensavo. ... però sul Collins ho trovato questa definizione
People (pl: inhabitants) abitanti mpl the people of London i londinesi country people la gente di campana town people la gente di città
Anche nelle altre accezioni non c'è mai il verbo alla terza persona singolare: Es. people say that ...si dice o la gente dice che... what do you people think?
Ciao, ti posto un estratto di materiale che ho trovato in giro per la rete
The noun people has both a PLURAL sense and a SINGULAR sense. In the PLURAL sense, people is used as the plural of person very frequently. It is a plural count noun and takes a plural verb. It never has an -s ending; it is already plural. (a) There were 15 people in the elevator. (b) The Portuguese people have chosen a new president. (Quirk) Occasionally, "persons" is preferred to "people," as in legal and quasi-legal language.
In contrast, the SINGULAR sense of people is used to refer to ALL the men, women, and children of a particular tribe, nation, country or ethnic group, speaking of them as a UNIT, and so the phrase a great people is indeed singular. It is a singular count noun. You can say: (e)They are a great people. (Quirk) (f)The Japanese are an industrious people. (Quirk) A people—meaning the unit of all the people in a tribe, nation, country or ethnic group—is a singular count noun. It has this form as a plural count noun: peoples. Thus, you can say: (h)The native peoples of Central and South America (Collins COBUILD English Dictionary) (i)The English-speaking peoples (Quirk) So, the word people, meaning the unit of people formed by a national group, has a meaning different from people, meaning different individuals. People—the unit—is a singular count noun, as you can see from "a great people," and a plural count noun, as you can see in sentences (h), (i). The word 'people' has a final -s only when it is used to refer to ethnic or national groups.