farcela
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfar.t͡ʃe.la/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -artʃela
- Hyphenation: fàr‧ce‧la
- (Romanesco) IPA(key): /fäjäː/, /ˈfäjelä/, /ˈfätʃːelä/, /ˈfäɾtʃelä/
Verb
fàrcela (pronominal, first-person singular present ce la fàccio, first-person singular past historic ce la féci, past participle fàttocela, first-person singular imperfect ce la facévo, second-person singular imperative fàccela, auxiliary avére) (informal)
- (intransitive) to be able to keep going; to be able to go on; to be able to take it (endure)
- Se non ce la fai, va' pure a casa a riposare.
- If you can’t go on, you can go home and rest.
- 2013, “Amore di massa [Mass love]”, in Una voce poco fa [A voice a little while ago], performed by Il Genio:
- Certo, amare è bello, ma se è troppo, non ce la si fa più.
- Sure, loving is nice, but if it's too much, one can't take it anymore.
- (intransitive) to be able to, to manage to [with a (+ infinitive) ‘do something’]
- Non ce la faceva proprio a sopportarlo.
- She really couldn't stand him.
- Sai mica se ce l'hanno fatta a vincere?
- By any chance, do you know if they managed to win?
- 1950, Cesare Pavese, chapter I, in La luna e i falò[1], Turin: Giulio Einaudi, published 1961, page 388:
- Nuto che, in confronto con me, non si è mai allontanato dal Salto, dice che per farcela a vivere in questa valle non bisogna mai uscirne.
- Nuto, who, compared to me, has never ventured far from the Salto, says that in order to be able to live in this valley you must never get out of it.
- (intransitive) to make it (succeed in doing something)
- Sarà difficile, ma sono sicura che può farcela.
- It's going to be hard, but I'm sure he can make it.
- (intransitive) to make it (become successful)
- C'è chi lo ammira, dicendo che ce l'ha fatta, ma tutti gli altri sanno che è un imbroglione.
- Some admire him, saying that he made it, but everyone else knows he's a swindler.
- (intransitive) to make it (succeed in surviving or living through something)
- L'intervento era rischioso, ma ce l'ha fatta.
- The surgery was risky, but he made it.
Conjugation
1With syntactic gemination after the verb.