/non me ne imˈpɔrta un ˈfiko ˈsekko/ lit. ‘I don’t care a dried fig’
Italian idiom, familiar. To not care about something at all.
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How do people use Non me ne importa un fico secco
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Familiar and a little theatrical, the kind of thing you say with a shrug about gossip, a rule or someone’s opinion. Swap the pronoun to change who doesn’t care: “non gliene importa un fico secco” (he doesn’t care), “non ce ne importa un fico secco” (we don’t). It’s a polite cousin of “me ne frego”, so you can say it in front of your grandmother.
Also said non importare un fico secco, non me ne importa un fico
Non me ne importa un fico secco
in real sentences
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Non me ne importa un fico secco.
I don’t care one bit.
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Where does Non me ne importa un fico secco
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A single fig was the classic example of something worth almost nothing, and the dried one makes the point harder. The Treccani dictionary lists “non vale, non m’importa un fico” as meaning “nothing at all” and says “un fico secco” is the emphatic version, quoting Ennio Flaiano for the plain fig. We found no date for its first use.
Mistakes learners make with Non me ne importa un fico secco
Mixing it up with “non vale un fico secco”, which uses the same fig to say something is worthless. “Non vale” is about value, “non me ne importa” is about your feelings, so “questo film non mi importa un fico secco” garbles the two.
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