English Translation
She was wearing a fancy dress.
“She was wearing an elegant dress.” Um, not stava indossando? I expected indossava to mean she wore and stava indossando to be used for she was wearing.
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It is my understanding that in Italian the continuous tense is optional. Here, the use of the imperfect is enough to convey the same meaning.
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Also “un costume” for a *fun fancy dress. In GB *fancy dress means dressing up as a clown, a banana, anything a bit comical.
Indossava or stava indossando? Indossava - she wore … Stava indossando - she was wearing …? Will have a word with our madrelingua.
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Come to think of it, couldn’t “stava indossando un vestito” be read as “she was putting on a dress”?
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Ehilà Morbrorper, unless it is “stava *mettendo un vestito”? Perhaps it’s all about context again. I’m with you re the Imperfect, it is also more “elegant”
Auguri…
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