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This is perhaps because fu (was) starts with “F.”Ĭaption 46, Ti racconto una fiaba - Biancaneve Play Caption In the following example, persino was used. You might be right!Įven if he paid me three hundred euros. You might very well be thinking perfino would have worked better than persino in the first example above, since the next word starts with an s. The above example, which uses both perfino and fino, sounds much clearer with persino. We don’t say fra fratelli because to Italian ears, the two F’s sound bad together, even though they both are equally correct in meaning. A good example is: tra fratelli (between or among brothers). When speaking properly, Italians try to avoid cacofonia (cacophony), which is what happens when there are too many instances of one particular consonant all together. Perfino and persino may be used interchangeably to mean “even” or “to the point of.” We choose one over the other for reasons of eufonia (euphony), that is, harmonious sound, in other words, because it sounds better. I could even work until midnight, but I would never finish. Potrei lavorare persino fino a mezzanotte, ma non finirei mai. The following examples give us an idea of the difference between fino and perfino. So we can think of perfino as meaning “ to the degree.”

Sino is another way of saying fino (and in fact perfino also exists). The first part is per which means “for” or sometimes “to.” Persino is stronger, with more extreme limits, than anche se. In the above example, we could also use the other word our subscriber asked about: persino se. Remember that where we see se (if), there might be a verb in the subjunctive lurking nearby. See this lesson about the subjunctive and conditional.Īnche se mi pagasse cento euro, non gli farei quel lavoro.Įven if he paid me a hundred euros, I wouldn’t do the job for him. In the next example, we use anche s e to connect a subjunctive clause with a conditional one.

In the following example, we use se (if) in Italian but it doesn’t make sense to use “if” in English, so we need “although,” or the more emphatic “even though.”ĭopo mezzogiorno, cominciamo a dire 'Buonasera',Īfter noon, we start saying 'good evening,'Īnche se, in realtà, non è proprio sera, è pomeriggio.Įven though, actually, it's not really evening it's the afternoon.Ĭaptions 19-20, Marika spiega - L'orologio Play Caption The individual words themselves are easy enough - anche means “also” or “even,” and se means “if” - but let’s see how these words fit into sentences, and more importantly, which contexts translate with which English equivalents. Let’s examine anche se (although, even if). These word combinations have to do with connecting two ideas in a sentence.

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In photos of the ceremony, Conte, now the leader of the Five Star Movement, appeared puzzled as he looked at the statue, surrounded by a mostly male entourage.A Yabla Italian subscriber has asked about how to use anche se (even if) and perfino se (even if). He said it was “useless” to try to explain artwork to those “who absolutely only want to see depravity”.Īntonio Gentile, the mayor of Sapri, said that until the row erupted “nobody had criticised or distorted the work of art”. Stifano defended his work, writing on Facebook that if it had been up to him the statue would have been “completely naked … simply because I am a lover of the human body”. They argued that the statue reflected nothing of the anti-Bourbon revolution nor the “self-determination of a woman who chooses not to go to work in order to take sides against the oppressor”. “Once again, we have to suffer the humiliation of seeing ourselves represented in the form of a sexualised body, devoid of soul and without any connection with the social and political issues of the story,” the group said in a statement. She wrote on Twitter: “But how can even the institutions accept the representation of a woman as a sexualised body?”Ī group of female politicians from the Democratic party’s unit in Palermo called for the statue to be knocked down. Laura Boldrini, a deputy with the centre-left Democratic party, said the statue was an “offence to women and the history it should celebrate”. 2msLhgJvso- laura boldrini September 26, 2021 Il maschilismo è uno dei mali dell'Italia. Ma come possono perfino le istituzioni accettare la rappresentazione della donna come corpo sessualizzato? La statua appena inaugurata a #Sapri e dedicata alla #Spigolatrice è un’offesa alle donne e alla storia che dovrebbe celebrare.

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