andare oltre
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to go beyond”.
Verb
[edit]andàre oltre (first-person singular present vàdo oltre, first-person singular past historic andài oltre, past participle andàto oltre, first-person singular future andrò oltre, first-person singular subjunctive vàda oltre, second-person singular imperative vài oltre or và' oltre, auxiliary èssere)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see andare, oltre.
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Quella sera, nel mio discorso ai diplomati, parlai dell'idea americana: cosa diceva il loro traguardo sulla nostra... capacità collettiva di andare oltre le differenze per affrontare le sfide attuali.
- In my remarks to the graduates that evening, I spoke about the American idea: what their accomplishment said about... our collective capacity to overcome our differences to meet the challenges of our time.
- (literally, “That evening, in my speech to the graduates, I spoke of the American idea: what their accomplishment said about our... collective capacity to go beyond differences to face current challenges.”)
- (idiomatic) to start a new activity or continue with one that has already been started; to progress or enter (into); to go further
- Synonyms: inoltrarsi, addentrarsi
- andando oltre nella canzone, ho trovato i lirici interessanti
- going further into the song, I found the interesting lyrics