76: How to say "it makes sense" in Italian - and avoid saying "it's gross" by accident
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🗓️ 22 December 2019
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Learn how to say “it makes sense” in Italian and avoid an easily made (but kind of embarrassing!) mistake.
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Today's Italian words
Ma non ha senso! = But it doesn’t make sense!
Non = make a sentence negative
Ha = it has
Senso = sense
Ha senso = it makes sense (lit. it has sense)
Fare = to do or to make
Fa = it makes
Fa senso = it makes me cringe/it’s disgusting
Il sangue fa senso = blood is disgusting/makes me cringe
La carne fa senso = meat is disgusting/makes me cringe
La tua idea ha senso = your idea makes sense
Sono d’accordo = I agree
Hai ragione = you’re right (lit. you have reason)
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know how to say it makes sense in Italian? |
| 0:08.0 | It's one of those phrases that you need to be a little bit careful with because it's easy to end up saying something totally different by accident. |
| 0:16.0 | Learn more in episode 77 of Five Minutes Italian. |
| 0:28.4 | Ciao to all and benvenuti at Five Minutes Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:30.4 | And I'm Matteo. |
| 0:31.6 | Ciao. |
| 0:32.5 | Recently, we've been looking at ways to agree in Italian. |
| 0:36.3 | It's really handy to have these little phrases in your Italian toolkit because they help |
| 0:40.8 | you keep the conversation going smoothly. |
| 0:44.8 | Today we're going to learn how to say it makes sense. |
| 0:50.7 | And you have to be a bit careful with this one because one little slip and you could end up saying something completely different that could get you in trouble. |
| 0:59.1 | To learn how to say it, let's start by listening to a phrase Katie often says when she's trying to file her taxes in Italy. |
| 1:10.3 | But it doesn's not sense. |
| 1:13.6 | But it doesn't make sense. |
| 1:16.6 | So when you're navigating the Italian tax system, the struggle is real. |
| 1:21.6 | But word for word, that's |
| 1:23.6 | non |
| 1:25.6 | used to make a negative sentence |
| 1:27.5 | has sense and we know that to make a sentence negative negative we add non to the beginning |
| 1:36.1 | so let's zoom in on the second part so to say it makes sense we a sense, which is literally it has sense. |
| 1:48.3 | So not it makes sense in Italian, but it has sense. |
| 1:52.1 | So if you're agreeing with someone, you can say... |
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