English translation of 'fa'
(3a pers sg del presente di) of fare
adverb
10 anni fa 10 years ago
quanto tempo fa? how long ago?
l’ho incontrata due ore fa I met her two hours ago
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Examples of 'fa' in a sentence
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Example sentences from the Collins Corpus
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Non è rompendo il termometro che si fa scendere la febbre.
La guerra ha avuto luogo almeno tre anni e mezzo fa.
Non fa altro che rafforzare la loro posizione; dobbiamo davvero porvi fine.
Perché anni fa gli islandesi hanno introdotto un piano pluriennale di gestione del merluzzo.
Non ci siamo riusciti, ma non fa niente.
In other languages
fa
British English: ago
/əˈɡəʊ/ ADVERB
You use ago to talk about a time in the past.
She left two weeks ago.
- American English: ago /əˈgoʊ/
- Arabic: مُنْذُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: atrás tempo
- Chinese: 以前
- Croatian: prije
- Czech: přednějakou dobou
- Danish: siden
- Dutch: geleden
- European Spanish: hace
- Finnish: sitten
- French: il y a durée
- German: vor
- Greek: πριν από
- Italian: fa
- Japanese: ･･･前に
- Korean: 전에
- Norwegian: siden
- Polish: (jakiś czas) temu
- European Portuguese: atrás Temp
- Romanian: în urmă cu
- Russian: давно
- Latin American Spanish: hace
- Swedish: för….sedan
- Thai: ที่ผ่านมาแล้ว
- Turkish: önce
- Ukrainian: томý
- Vietnamese: cách đây
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