Ho sempre voluto incontrarti.

[morbrorper]

English Translation

I’ve always wanted to meet you.

Looking through the corpus, it strikes me that sempre never seems to precede the finite verb of a sentence; I wonder how “Sempre ho voluto incontrarti” sounds to a native.

This “rule” is in stark contrast to Spanish, where you often see siempre at the beginning of sentences.

[Floria7]

Interesting. Forse it is something to do with emphasis.

Aspettiamo…

[mike-lima]

@morbrorper

I wonder how “Sempre ho voluto incontrarti” sounds to a native.

It doesn’t feel very natural. You can move around the adverb quite freely in Italian, but it feels better in some position.