"La loro società è molto diversa."

Translation: Their society is very different.

[dnovinc]

Shouldn't this also be accepted : "their society is very diverse. "

[mukkapazza]

You're right! It is just used more often as "different".

[Soglio]

Really, it could mean either?

"Their society is very different" means, in English, that their society is very different from other societies.

"Their society is very diverse" means that the members within the society are different from each other and represent a wide range of, or a great many, differences.

[marirosso]

Soglio is correct. How do you express in Italian the English meaning of 'their society is very diverse', as opposed to 'different'?

[CheeseS]

Diverse corresponds to vario or variegato in Italian, maybe?

[sureed]

I had that accepted as correct 23.1.15.

[TimTreffry]

It was accepted for me (December 2021). But "diverse" (varied) is not really the same as "different" in English.

[MadelynWri]

Doesn't "società" also mean "company", as well as "society"?

[Monnicchio]

Yes. In this series, I had one example where "società" meant "company" and the other (this one) where the official translation is "society".

Fortunately, DL seems to accept either answer as correct, but that doesn't really help my understanding of the language or being able to differentiate between them much...

[akoakini]

yes, i think so

[lexablackbird]

Accepted "company" for me, yes.

[mprdo]

I tried to get it wrong by using "quite different"...surprise!... it was accepted. 08 Sep15

[clarkiecat]

What's the purpose of la before loro? I guess it changes they to their but I must have missed the lesson where that's explained to us.

[MartaForna3]

Yes, "loro" can be both a personal pronoun (used as a subject, meaning "they": they are brothers/loro sono fratelli) and a possessive adjective/pronoun ("their"/"theirs": this is their dog/questo è il loro cane, this dog is theirs/questo cane è loro). When it is used as a possessive adjective, it is invariable and is preceded by the article. Hope it 's clear :)

[Mark621788]

Since societa is feminine shouldn't it be molta diversa rather than molto diversa.

[SusanCoope312550]

I was very confused about molto until I decided that if it could mean 'a lot of'the endings would change, if it means 'very' or 'much' they don't. I am sure there are some names for the various parts of speech but it's long time since I studied grammar and I can't remember them.

[59191]

"adjective" for your first meaning; "adverb" for your second

[Michaela143747]

They just used società for business in the previous lesson. Is there some reason my answer is incorrect: "Their business is very different."