Word
Oggi il lavoro è stato talmente massacrante da farmi crollare sul divano.
Meaning
Today work was so grueling that it made me collapse on the sofa.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Oggi il lavoro è stato talmente massacrante da farmi crollare sul divano.
essere
to be
oggi
today
il lavoro
work / job
fare
to do / to make
Questions & Answers about Oggi il lavoro è stato talmente massacrante da farmi crollare sul divano.
Why does this sentence use da farmi (infinitive) instead of che mi ha fatto (conjugated verb)?
This is an implicit consecutive clause. Because the subject of both parts of the sentence is the same—the work (il lavoro) was grueling, and the work made you collapse—Italian prefers using da + infinitive to show the result. You could technically say talmente massacrante che mi ha fatto crollare (an explicit clause), but the da structure is often preferred for being more concise and elegant when the subjects match.
Could I use così instead of talmente in this sentence?
Yes, absolutely! così and talmente are interchangeable when used to mean so or to such an extent. You could say così massacrante da farmi crollare without changing the grammar or meaning, though talmente sometimes carries a slightly stronger, more dramatic emphasis.
How does the phrase farmi crollare work, and why is mi attached to the end?
This uses the causative construction, which is fare + infinitive, meaning to make someone do something. Because the sentence uses the implicit da + infinitive structure, fare stays in the infinitive. The object pronoun mi attaches to the end of it, dropping the final -e of fare to form farmi. Notice that you never put a preposition between the causative verb and the second infinitive (crollare).