Breakdown of L'utente è arrabbiato. Non ci puoi contare.
essere
to be
non
not
potere
can, to be able to
arrabbiato
angry
Questions & Answers about L'utente è arrabbiato. Non ci puoi contare.
The translation says 'on him', but I don't see 'su di lui'. How does that work?
Why is ci placed before puoi instead of being attached to contare?
It can actually go in either place! When you have a modal verb like potere (here conjugated as puoi) followed by an infinitive verb (contare), pronoun clitics can either go before the conjugated verb (Non ci puoi contare) or attach to the end of the dropped-e infinitive (Non puoi contarci). Both are perfectly natural.
How do we know 'the user' is a man in this sentence?
We know because the adjective arrabbiato (angry) ends in -o, which is the masculine singular ending. The noun utente (user) is identical for both men and women when used with the definite article l'. If it were a female user, the first sentence would be L'utente è arrabbiata.
Does contare always mean 'to rely on'?