"Can I ask a couple of questions?"

Translation: Posso chiedere un paio di domande?

[CiaoSharon]

I think "posso chiedere un paio di domande" is correct...it's the same as using Posso fare un paio...

[FrancescoN41]

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.

[Blomeley]

perche non posso usare 'una coppia'?

[mukkapazza]

Una coppia è un uomo e una donna :)

[PhilZam]

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?

[victorvillena]

If it is like in Spanish, 'paio' means exactly 2.

[FrancescoN41]

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)

[DarienGS]

no love for "Posso domandare un paio di domande?" :(

[runem]

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)

[FrancescoN41]

sono d'accordo ... si chiedono le cose non le domande

[Pearl2011]

I just used this exact sentence and it was correct, now I have to pick it myself and it's considered incorrect?