Breakdown of Siamo tornati a sentire un affiatamento indissolubile.
essere
to be
un
a / an (masculine)
tornare
to return
a
(linking a verb to a following infinitive)
sentire
to feel (a sensation)
l'affiatamento
the harmony, rapport (m)
indissolubile
unbreakable, indissoluble
Questions & Answers about Siamo tornati a sentire un affiatamento indissolubile.
How does tornare a sentire mean "felt again"?
The structure tornare a followed by an infinitive is a common way to express that an action is happening again. While you could just use an adverb like di nuovo (abbiamo sentito di nuovo), using tornare a literally means "to return to doing" something. It gives this sentence a slightly more poetic or emotional nuance, emphasizing the return to a previous, familiar state of harmony.
Since sentire takes avere, why is the auxiliary verb here siamo instead of abbiamo?
With this specific phrase, the auxiliary (helper) verb is determined by tornare, not by the infinitive that follows it. Because tornare is a verb of motion that always takes essere, you must say siamo tornati a sentire, even though sentire by itself would take avere (abbiamo sentito).
Why does tornati end in -i if it's followed by an infinitive?
Whenever you use essere as your auxiliary verb in a compound tense (like siamo here), the past participle must agree in gender and number with the subject. The -i ending on tornati tells us that "we" refers to either a masculine or mixed-gender plural subject. If a group of women were speaking, they would say siamo tornate a sentire.
What is the literal meaning of affiatamento?
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