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(nelle interrogative) ~ stai? how are you? ~ ti chiami? what’s your name? ~ si scrive? how do you spell it? sapere ~ fare to know how to do; com’è John? what is John like? com’è la casa? what does the house look like? ~? excuse me? pardon? sorry? ~ hai detto? what did you say?
come mai, com’è che colloq. how come
(nelle esclamative) ~ sei gentile! how kind of you! ~ sei cresciuto! haven’t you grown! how you’ve grown! ~ ci siamo divertiti! what a great time we had! (ma) ~! what! ~ no! of course! sure!
(similmente a) ~ la maggior parte delle persone like most people; in una situazione ~ questa in such a situation; un cappello ~ quello a hat like that one
(nel modo in cui, allo stesso modo di) as; fai ~ me do as I do; ha fatto ~ gli ho detto he did it the way I told him; (fai) ~ vuoi do as you like; ~ avevamo deciso as we had agreed; ~ sempre as ever, the same as always; ~ al solito as usual; ~ segue as follows
(il modo in cui) ecco ~ è successo it happened like this, this is what happened; per ~ la vedo io as I see it
(in paragoni) nero ~ il carbone as black as coal; è intelligente ~ te he is as intelligent as you; non è intelligente ~ te he is not as o so intelligent as you; trattare qcn. ~ un bambino to treat sb. like a child; è più facile di ~ pensavo it’s easier than I thought
(quanto) di giorno ~ di notte by day as well as by night; tanto qui ~ all’estero both here and abroad
(quale) such as, like; in un paese ~ l’Italia in a country like Italy; città ~ Roma e Milano such cities as o cities such as Rome and Milan
(in qualità di, con la funzione di) as; lavorare ~ insegnante to work as a teacher; presentarsi ~ candidato to stand as a candidate; ~ esempio di as an instance o example of; cosa c’è ~ dessert? what’s for dessert?
(in proposizioni incidentali) ~ ben sai as you well know o know full well; ~ potete vedere as you can see
(nello spelling) T ~ Tom T for Tom
(intensivo) avaro com’è, non ti darà nulla he’s so mean, he won’t give you anything
come da as per; ~ da istruzioni as requested, as per your instructions; ~ da programma according to schedule
cong.
(quasi) rispettala ~ fosse tua madre respect her as though she were your mother; mi guardò ~ per dire “te l’avevo detto” he looked at me as if to say “I told you so”
come se as if; si comporta ~ se fosse a casa sua he acts like he owns the place; si sono comportati ~ se niente fosse they behaved as if nothing had happened
(non appena) as, as soon as; ~ si è fatto buio sono tornato a casa as it went dark I came back home; ~ giro le spalle as soon as my back is turned
(che) how, that; mi ha detto ~ l’ha trovato he told me how he had found it
m. il ~ e il perché di qcs. the how and the why of sth.
locuzioni idiomatiche ~ non detto forget it, never mind; ~ minimo at the very least.