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Il dolce far niente is the Italian phrase in the 1958 movie 'Houseboat'. It's pronounced 'eel DOHL-chay fahr nee-EHN-tay'. In the literal, word by word translation, the masculine definite article 'il' means 'the'. The adjective 'dolce', used as a noun, means 'sweetness'. The infinitive 'fare'* means 'to do'. The adverb 'niente' means 'nothing'. The smooth translation therefore becomes 'The sweetness of doing nothing'.
*In conversational Italian, syllables may be dropped if they don't get in the way of understanding. This is one such case. The final vowel ['e'] is dropped, because listeners understand 'far' to be 'fare'.
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