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It doesn’t make sense but it has sense … doesn’t it? Posted by on Jul 22, 2013

It’s very easy to get caught out by the verbs avere (to have) and fare (to do / to make), as they both have a wide variety of uses beyond their usual literal translation. Take the expression ‘to make sense’ for example. If we translate this literally into Italian we get fare senso which has…

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