Breakdown of Il calcare resta; a maggior ragione controlliamo l'ugello.
Questions & Answers about Il calcare resta; a maggior ragione controlliamo l'ugello.
In everyday household Italian, calcare usually means limescale or mineral buildup, especially in appliances, taps, coffee machines, and similar contexts.
Technically, calcare can also relate to limestone in other contexts, but in a sentence like this, a learner should normally understand it as limescale.
So Il calcare resta means something like The limescale remains or There is still limescale left.
Italian often uses the definite article more than English does.
Here, il calcare refers to the substance in a general but concrete way: the limescale / the limescale deposit / the limescale that is there.
English might simply say Limescale remains, but Italian very naturally says Il calcare resta.
This is common with nouns for substances and general categories:
- Il latte è freddo = The milk is cold
- Il pane manca = There is no bread / The bread is missing
- Il calcare resta = The limescale remains