Word
Valuterei i titoli se la banca mi facesse un prestito.
Meaning
I would evaluate the stocks if the bank made me a loan.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Valuterei i titoli se la banca mi facesse un prestito.
un
a / an (masculine)
fare
to do / to make
la banca
bank
se
if
Questions & Answers about Valuterei i titoli se la banca mi facesse un prestito.
Why is the imperfect subjunctive of fare here facesse instead of being based on the modern infinitive?
In the imperfect subjunctive, a few irregular verbs use their old Latin stems instead of their modern infinitives. For fare, the stem is fac- (from the older Latin word). To form the imperfect subjunctive, you just add the regular endings to this old stem: facesse, facessimo, faceste, facessero.
Why do we use the subjunctive in the second half of the sentence?
This sentence uses a hypothetical period to describe an imaginary or unlikely situation. In Italian, the "if" clause (se) in this structure must use the imperfect subjunctive (facesse), while the main result clause uses the conditional (valuterei). You cannot use the conditional directly after se.
Doesn't titolo usually mean "title" like the title of a book?
Why does the sentence use fare for giving a loan instead of a verb like dare?