"Can I ask a couple of questions?"
Translation:Posso chiedere un paio di domande?
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So does that me that coppia is more for relationship couples (exactly 2) and paio means more like a few (of non matched) things. IN English, the latter context may not be exactly two, eg I went out with a couple of friends- could be 2 or 3 or even 4. Is that the correct usage in Italian?
yes for the shoes, really not so true for the questions "posso fare un paio di domande" = can i ask few questions (two or three)
Usually it's fare una domanda, fare un paio di domande, but chiedere domande or domandare domande sounds really unnatural. it's grammatically correct but sounds foreign (i'm italian, on a friend's account)
I think "posso chiedere un paio di domande" is correct...it's the same as using Posso fare un paio...
mmm .... Saresti riconosciuta come inglese ; ) Anyway you can try a little experiment: from google search type "posso chiedere un paio di domande" (4 results) and then try to type "posso fare un paio di domande" (1.590.000 results). Ciao.
I just used this exact sentence and it was correct, now I have to pick it myself and it's considered incorrect?
