CAFFE’ CULTURA – Today’s expression is: to permit

Caffè cultura, the words of the coffee. This is the name of the column.
In the last months we have been examining all the Italian words related to coffee providing for each one of them the English translation. Now it is the turn of the English-Italian section, again in alphabetical order. The source is, as always, il Ragazzini 2006. All credits to the publishing house Zanichelli.

to permit e to forbid si costruiscono con to + infinito quando il loro complemento oggetto (che corrisponde al complemento di termine italiano) viene espresso: I forbid you to watch TV, ti proibisco di guardare la televisione; The doctor permitted the patient to drink coffee, il medico consentì al paziente di bere caffè.

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The words of the coffee in Italian and in English il Ragazzini edition 2006, dictionary English-Italian Italian-English. This edition contains beyond 400.000 voices and meanings, beyond 6.000 neologisms, and 120,000 specialistic terms, the indication of the 4,300 English words more important.