"Where are you?"
Translation:Dove siete?
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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!
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Not exactly. I'm native in Portuguese and am studying Spanish. Portuguse and Spanish are similar in this matter, but italian is quite difficult for me to understand. Both Portuguse and Spanish use "estar" to describe location, whereas Italian doesn't. Only pointing out one example
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 for location spanish uses estar which is why it feels like stai should be used instead of siete. Are the meanings opposite in spanish/italian?
I am Italian e "Dove stai" is equivalent to "Dove sei". No doubt!
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.
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Precisely...so in my humble opinion "dove stai" and "dove state" are correct while the given answer "dove siete" is not....unless you stay permanently at the sane place.
Thank you so much! This is by far the clearest explanation of the difference between "stare" and "essere" that I've ever seen. It was incredibly helpful
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So precisely "dove stai" and "dove state" are in my humble opinion correct while the given reply "dove sei" is not. Or am I missing something?
So if you wsnted a phrase like "what are you thinking?" = "where is your head on this?" = "where are you?" You wouldnt use 'stai'?
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...
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
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.
If Italians think Dove stai is correct why say it is wrong and insist the correct answer is impossible to select?
"Lei" is polite you. "Lei dov'è?" = "Where are you?"
Also, of course, it means "Where is she?" :)
There is NO indication of whether it is singular or plural, thus both Dove sei and Dove siete should be accepted!
@fefermin, I was given word tiles, and stai was the choice available. So, yes. :-)
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'
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"
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.
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.
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Why does the "correct" answer use a word not shown in the list of options? i.e Dove sei
"dove stai" and "dove state" are both correct. Whereas the app accepts only the first one.
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
I put "Dove stai" and it was wrong..
It offered me " "Dove siete" which is to me Where are you all "
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Where are you = in English it means : dove sei AND dove siete!!!! You should accept both
Looking around at examples on line, "dove stai" seems to emphasize the place that you are, even if you move away from it, and "dove sei" emphasizes the fact that you are in it, with the place being possibly less well defined.
"Dove sei?" "I'm at work."
"Dove stai?" "I'm at my desk."
Native Italian speakers, please let me know if this sounds right to you.
But it is "Dove sei..." UPDATE: I think I realized what you meant. Are you referring to the response on Google Translate? Because it says something different: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=it&text=Where%20are%20you%3F&op=translate
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If "dove siete" is the correct answer then the question should be "Where are ye/ya'll"
We do have second person plurals in English, not using them in the questions makes the phrases confusing to translate properly.
I typed: "Dov è?" for Where are you. But, while my answer was correct, I keep getting a message below saying "you have a typo" and the same thing is written right next to it. Can someone tell me what I'm missing?