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"Where are you?"
Translation:Dove sei?
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The correct answer is actually listed as such at the top of this page even though that wasnt given as a choice to me. weird
Why isn't "Dove stai" also correct? "You" can refer to a single other person or multiple other people.
Stai is not a conjugation of essere (sono/sei/è/siamo/siete/sono), but of stare (sto/stai/sta/stiamo/stanno). The distinction is a little difficult for me to explain, but i think of it as a static condition or a state of being, rather than being in a time or place: "come stai" (how are you) or "sto bene" (I'm doing well), versus "sono un ragazzo" (I'm a kid) or "è una banana" (it's a banana). This becomes important later in verb tenses!
Only a bit. 'Ser" and 'estar' are both 'to be', with different usages; 'essere' is also 'to be' but 'stare' is properly 'to stand'.
But the verb to be in english means both "essere" and "stare", because there's no distiction. In portuguese, we say "Onde você está?" intead of "Onde você é?". So why is it wrong in italian?
Precisely, if we are asking "where are you (now)" not "where do you live" I believe stare is the correct one.
We don't use stare for describing location? So it doesn't work like spanish
I think in my experience, "Dove sei?" was accepted, but "Dove stai?" not. So I think the problem is not in the person but in the verb...
I asked two Italian born speakers one from Puglia one from Rome about dove stai, they said it's correct
"Where are you?" asks for location and we haven't learned the other verb "to be" stare, only essere.
"Lei" is polite you. "Lei dov'è?" = "Where are you?"
Also, of course, it means "Where is she?" :)
@fefermin, I was given word tiles, and stai was the choice available. So, yes. :-)
It told me one of the correct translations was Dove 6? I'm not sure if that is a glitch
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If Italians think Dove stai is correct why say it is wrong and insist the correct answer is impossible to select?
This may be a dumb question, but whats the difference between dov'è and dove ?
dove = where; dov'e = where is (or more specifically, where's)
[there are no dumb questions!]
It's "are you" or "You are" like in "Siete pronti", meaning "Are you ready"
Annoying when you respond to an item where there is ambiguity with the english "you". I keep interpreting it as 'you singular' and get it wrong as the program was asking for a response for 'you plural'
Okay so I put "dove sei" and mine said the answer was "dove sta lei", I don't know what that means but it looks pretty wrong
No, it's O.K. - formal "where are you?" using the verb stare instead of essere (I don't mind if they give different answers but one has to hope they're all right.) I still don't know why they didn't accept "Dove sei? as a translation - or was this an aural exercise. Then they'd be right.
No it was an English sentence and I was to translate it to Italian. I still don't understand why my answer was wrong so I reported it. "Dove sei" and "dove siete" are the only ways I know how to translate that sentence. I haven't learned the verb stare yet so I still don't know what it means. I don't get why it thinks I would just know that
Okay so I just did this excercise again, and this time it told me the answer was "dove stai". Idk what that means either but it seems to keep giving me different answers, and I still haven't learned them in any excercises yet.
That's odd. Stai was the only available choice in the word tiles. Maybe it's changed since you tried it ?
I would imagine you are strengthening it as I am. They throw in some of the later work so it's not the same things that you are just memorizing.
could this also be "Dove sei tu?" and also "Dove siete voi" don't they both mean the same thing ?
I had this as multiple choice question. I ticked Dove sei, and I was told it's wrong that I should have ticked both "Dove sei" and "Dove e." Isn't Dove e - where is it?
I also has the multiple choice question. The question was "Where are you?" and the correct answers were "Dove Sei" and "Dov'è". Have I missed something that explains why dov'è is correct? I understand it to mean "where is it?"
I though 'Dove è' translates 'where is it'
the word 'è' was not among the words offered for selection. I chose 'sei' meaning 'you are' and was marked wrong.
Typically we see 'Dov'è' – meaning where is he, she, it. Any Italian speakers out there who can explain when one would use 'Dove è?'
Please read the comments above before posting a new comment. The polite form of "you" is "lei". "Lei dov'è?" means "Where are you?" in polite form. Skipping the pronoun, we just have "Dov'è?" which can mean "Where are you?" and "Where is it/he/she?"
The exercise I was given had me choose from among posted words, and the word 'è' was not among the words offered, so I reported that. I was marked wrong for selecting 'sei.' Elsewhere, I see 'dove sei' means 'where are you.'
It is clear, after having read the comments BEFORE posting, that we are not all seeing the same page: some people type in their answers, some choose from among a couple of options, while I am given Italian words to select. None of the comments seemed to have the same problem I did.
Oh, then it is totally a bug!
Both "Dov'è?" and "Dove sei?" should be accepted for "Where are you?". I see the problem now :) I hope they fix the bug.
OK, I thought I already wrote above explaining that "Dov'è?" can mean "Where are you?" for polite you, so that answers the "when one would use it" question. But maybe it was on another post, dunno :)
Why does the "correct" answer use a word not shown in the list of options? i.e Dove sei
I don't understand why the informal "Dov'è tu" is not also a correct answer in addition to the formal "Dov'è Lei" suggested by Duolingo.
"dove stai" and "dove state" are both correct. Whereas the app accepts only the first one.
This aggravates me. I see the hints in the drop down menu, and "sei" is there. Duolingo, if you want us to be correct, then specify your plurals. This is stupid. Ha ha, it's not funny.
Just to clear everything up. my nona is Italian born and she says " Dove stai" is just fine and also what she would say instead of " dove siete". I think one is informal, one is formal, and the other is referring to a group of people
because that'd be just like saying "where you are?" the way the sentence is formed stays the same as it is in english -> Where (Dove) are (sei) you (tu) ? which can just be simplified into "dove sei?" because the verb already tells you who the subject of this sentence is so the "tu" at the end is optional.
I put in dov é tu and it was correct. But it also said i wrote with typos "dove 6 tu" which i didn't write. So go figure.
I put "Dove stai" and it was wrong..
It offered me " "Dove siete" which is to me Where are you all "
There is NO indication of whether it is singular or plural, thus both Dove sei and Dove siete should be accepted!
It's wrong... where are you is dove sei, dove siete... we don't sei "dove è", but dov'è" and it's where is it, she, he.
because sono means I am, not you are. So "dove sono tu" would basically mean "where am you".
Sono is the verb for the second person singular and plural: i am / they are.
