/ˈkome ˈdue ˈɡottʃe ˈdakkwa/ lit. ‘like two drops of water’
Italian idiom, everyday. To look or be almost exactly alike.
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How do people use Come due gocce d’acqua
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Everyday Italian, mostly about twins, siblings or a child who looks just like a parent. It usually follows assomigliarsi or somigliarsi (“si assomigliano come due gocce d’acqua”), but you can also say “sono due gocce d’acqua” and leave out the come. It works for things too, like two paintings or two cars.
Also said somigliarsi come due gocce d’acqua, assomigliarsi come due gocce d’acqua
Come due gocce d’acqua
in real sentences
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Quei gemelli si assomigliano come due gocce d’acqua.
Those twins look like two peas in a pod.
Tatoeba, sentence by Guybrush88, translation by Zifre, CC BY 2.0 FR
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Quei due sono come due gocce d’acqua.
Those two are exactly alike.
Tatoeba, sentence by hitori37, translation by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Come due gocce d’acqua
come from?
The Treccani dictionary says outright that “somigliarsi come due gocce d’acqua” is a calque of French “se ressembler comme deux gouttes d’eau”. The picture needs no explaining: two drops of water are as close to identical as anything you can see. Treccani gives no date for when Italian borrowed it.
Mistakes learners make with Come due gocce d’acqua
Spelling the plural “goccie”. Goccia loses its i in the plural because a consonant comes before -cia, so it’s “gocce”. Translating the English peas (“due piselli in un baccello”) won’t be understood either.
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