Breakdown of Le mie braccia sanguinavano, così sono corso dal medico.
essere
to be
il medico
the doctor
mio
my
correre
to run
da
from, at (someone's place) / by (oneself), on one's own
così
so, like this
il braccio
the arm
sanguinare
to bleed
Questions & Answers about Le mie braccia sanguinavano, così sono corso dal medico.
Why does this sentence use sono corso with the helping verb essere instead of avere?
The verb correre (to run) can take either avere or essere in the past tense. Because this sentence has a specific destination (dal medico, meaning to the doctor), it describes directed motion. For directed motion, you must use essere. If you were just talking about the physical activity of running without a destination, you would use avere (such as ho corso).
Why is sanguinavano in the imperfect tense but sono corso is in the passato prossimo?
The bleeding was an ongoing, continuous background event in the past, so it takes the imperfect tense. Running to the doctor was a specific, completed action triggered by that background event, which requires the passato prossimo.
Wait, braccia ends in an 'a'. Is it feminine singular?
Why do we use dal medico to mean 'to the doctor' instead of using the preposition a?
In Italian, when you go to a person (like a doctor, a mechanic, or a friend) or to their home or workspace, you must use the preposition da. Here, da combines with the definite article il to become dal.
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