Breakdown of Lo specialista ha finito la risonanza in trenta minuti.
trenta
thirty
finire
to finish
il minuto
the minute
lo specialista
the specialist
in
within (time needed to complete)
la risonanza
the resonance
Questions & Answers about Lo specialista ha finito la risonanza in trenta minuti.
Why is in trenta minuti used here instead of tra trenta minuti?
The preposition in is used to express the duration of time it takes to complete an action. The specialist actually spent thirty minutes doing the MRI. If the sentence said tra trenta minuti (or fra trenta minuti), it would mean the MRI will start thirty minutes from now.
How do we know specialista is a man here?
Words ending in -ista (like specialista, dentista, turista) are identical for masculine and feminine forms in the singular. You have to look at the definite article to determine the gender. The masculine article lo tells us this is a male specialist. If it were a female specialist, it would be la specialista.
Is risonanza the standard medical term for an MRI?
Why does finire use avere (ha finito) instead of essere here?
Finire can take either avere or essere in the past tense depending on how it is used. Because the specialist finished something (the MRI is a direct object receiving the action), the verb is transitive and takes avere. If the action simply ended on its own without a direct object, it would take essere, as in la risonanza è finita presto.
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