Does it make sense to say "se quando"?
Ciao!
One of my lessons (from Pimsleur) has a sample sentence:
E se quando viaggio, prendo una macchina.
Its English translation even says "And if when I travel, I take a car", which doesn't make sense "to say "if" and "when" consecutively like that. Is this simply a mistake in my lesson material?
Grazie mille.
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Hi Ian,
u are right.
E se quando viaggio, prendo una macchina full stop is not correct in italian.
At least it makes sense:
Se e quando viaggio, prendo una macchina. (In a contest in which a person is telling someone he doesn’t like travelling and he never catchs planes. So he is stressing “If and when” Se e quando : If and when I’m going to travel, I’ll take a car).
Instead it’s correct in this sentence:
E, se quando viaggio prendo una macchina, mi sento male. (And if a take a car for travelling, I feel sick). Maybe he prefers travelling by train or by plane.
Anyway, also in this case is better to say:
Quando viaggio, se vado in auto mi sento male.
Ciao
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it isn't very fluent, but it is right, but you must put a comma in this way: "... e se, quando viaggio, prendo una macchina ...". It is more fluent to say: "... e se prendo una macchina quando viaggio ..."
Ciao Yan.
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