English Translation
I care about about my family.
Importa and not importo? Because – it’s a command? I’m ordering myself to care about my family? I’m having trouble wrapping my head around this one.
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Literally it isn’t ‘I care’ but rather ‘it matters to me’, that’s why ‘importa’ is in the 3rd person.
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It looked strange to me as well, but there are actually quite a few sentences using the same pattern in the Tatoeba corpus.