wave00

dovrei tradurre:
"La mia rete è morta!" posso tradurre così?
"My network is deathed!" e' corretto usare is con il past simple(deathed)?

MikeL

No. "Deathed" non esiste!
Si dice "My network is dead" ["is" + aggetivo "dead"] o "My network has died" ["has" + participio passato del verbo "to die"]

wave00

Grazie mille per la risposta, la cosa che mi confonde è usare "has" perchè l'associo solo al verbo essere dell'italiano cioè "is", invece, in questo caso, essendo un passato terminato da poco, devo usare cmq il present perfect quindi "has".

MikeL

Devo spiegare questo in inglese perchè il mio italiano non è abbastanza buono...

In Italian (and in French) the equivalent of the "present perfect" tense ["something has happened", "someone has died" etc.] uses the auxiliary verb essere/être for certain verbs, while most verbs use avere/avoir:
sono tornato a casa / je suis rentré chez moi
ho preparato la cena / j'ai préparé le dîner
In English all verbs use "have": I have returned home. I have prepared dinner.
So in the case of the verb "to die" the present perfect is: it has died.
"Died" is the past participle exactly like "returned" and "prepared" in the examples above. Therefore the sentence "It has died" describes an action, something that happened, in the recent past.
However, English also has a separate adjective "dead" which means "not alive" and describes the state of someone or something. Therefore we can say "The network is dead" when we refer to the state of the network now, rather than describing what happened to it recently. In English and French the past participle and the adjective [morto/mort] are the same, and the verb morire/mourir requires the auxiliary essere/être for the present perfect tense, so "la rete è morta" can correspond to either "The network is dead" or "The network has died". The difference in meaning between these 2 English sentences is very small.
Questo è chiaro?

wave00

tutto chiarissimo grazie!