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In this podcast, you never translated "mi sono chiuso".
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Posted by: Quincy Boolum | March 05, 2007 at 04:40 AM
Quincy wrote --
"In this podcast, you never translated "mi sono chiuso"."
babelfish.com translates it as "they are closed to me"
Posted by: Gary Olmstead | March 07, 2007 at 11:12 PM
"Mi sono chiuso" literally means "I shut myself", so "mi sono chiuso fuori dalla mia camera" is literally "I shut myself outside of my room". The verb "chiudere" means "to close". Make it reflexive and it becomes "chiudersi" - to close oneself. :Mi sono chiuso" is the perfect tense, so it refers to the past.
Posted by: Mark | March 07, 2007 at 11:16 PM