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- "He and she are siblings."
"He and she are siblings."
Translation:Lui e lei sono fratelli.
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That would just mean "I have two siblings". "Ho un fratello ed una sorella" would be a brother and a sister.
Duo rejected "Lui ed lei sono fratelli." Are "ed" and "e" not, then, interchangeable terms for "and"?
Ed is used when 'e' comes before a word that starts with a vowel. "Lui e lei" versus "Lui ed io."
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sibling goes back to Old English but was no longer used until reintroduced back at the beginning of the 20th century as an anthropological term. In German, one says Geschwister, cf. Schwester 'sister', though the term is sex-neutral. In Japanese, one says 兄弟 'kyoudai', a Sino-Japanese term literally meaning big-brother/little brother. But if one is talking about two or more sisters, the term is 姉妹 shimai, lit. 'older sister/younger sister'.
"Parenti" means "relatives" in general, including parents, grandparents, cousins,...
He and she are siblings, I put "Egli ed ella sono fratelli" and corrected "Ella ed egli sono fratelli", and I lost my last heart :/
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Me too. I was going to mark both as correct but they specifically said "siblings" in English, so I figured the other "correct" choice was a trick question.
Lui e lei sono sorella e fratello. This was marked wrong for putting sister first. :(
Fratelli also means siblings. Similar to how the plural form of ragazzi (boys) can also mean children (boys and girls)
Because that's "we" whereas the sentence is "He and she [they] are siblings."
