Every now and then Italian surprises us by throwing up a tense which is more or less the same as one in English!
Here’s a question from today’s free Italian exercise on futuro anteriore (future perfect, in English).
“Simona è in ritardo, avrà perso/sarà persa/saranno persi l’autobus.”
My translation would be something like:
“Simona is late, she’ll have missed/she’ll be missed/they’ll missed the bus.”
Hope you can manage to identify the correct answer!
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P.S.
For those of you in the habit of reading the P.S., here’s a reward, a sneak preview of next week’s new e-book, ‘Uno studente in viaggio‘!
Chapter 1, our foreign student arrives in Italy, and has an unpleasant surprise…
Adesso sono all’aeroporto di Roma. Sono appena arrivato e vedo molta confusione intorno a me.
Cerco di parlare con le persone ma tutti corrono e nessuno si ferma. Il mio zaino è pesantissimo e io sono stanco e preoccupato, perché questa confusione mi fa paura e non capisco cosa succede.
Esco dall’aeroporto per andare al mio ostello in centro, ma ho una brutta sorpresa: non ci sono autobus, non ci sono taxi, e sulla porta della metropolitana c’è uno strano cartello. Dice: “Sciopero”. Che significa?
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