Breakdown of Marco ha manipolato il gruppo per il montepremi, non ci credo!
non
not
avere
to have
Marco
Marco
il gruppo
the group
per
for / in order to / because of
credere
to believe
ci
about it / in it (with verbs taking 'a')
il montepremi
the prize money
manipolare
to manipulate
Questions & Answers about Marco ha manipolato il gruppo per il montepremi, non ci credo!
Why is it non ci credo instead of non lo credo to say 'I don't believe it'?
Montepremi looks like a combination of two words. How does its plural work?
How could we apply this lesson's topic (basta che) to this sentence to say 'Provided that Marco manipulated the group...'?
The conjunction basta che requires the subjunctive mood. Since the manipulation already happened in the past, you would switch the auxiliary verb ha to its past subjunctive form, abbia. The phrase becomes: Basta che Marco abbia manipolato il gruppo...
Does manipolare carry the exact same psychological meaning as 'manipulate' in English?
Yes. While it can mean to physically handle objects or tamper with data, it is heavily used exactly like its English counterpart to describe the emotional or psychological manipulation of a person or a gruppo.
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