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- "Cosa saranno diventate?"
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In the audio file i could have sworn i heard diventati. 'Cosa saranno diventati' should also be accepted.
If there is 'saranno diventatE' (not 'diventatO'), does it mean that we're talking about some women?
Yes, i thik that "saranno diventatE" refers to women/girls. "Saranno diventatI" would refer to males (i think also males &females).
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I came here to see why "diventati" was rejected. It seems that it should have been accepted.
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three years ago you did not get an answer why diventati was not accepted. Here I am 2019 and I am asking the same question. why is diventati not accepted?
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I tried being idiomatic, and put 'what will become of them". It was marked wrong, but how would you say it?
Che ne sarà di loro?. The ne is needed, and so is an Italian native to explain why!
What will they become as in 'how will they turn out' is different to what will become of them, as in 'what will happen to them'.
Mothers, lovers, heroines, airline pilots, actresses, engineers, rocket scientists, ….
My answer of 'What will have they become?' was wrong, but isn't it just the same as 'What will they have become?'? If anything, I think mine makes more sense!
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No it is not the same. You only invert ONE auxiliary verb in a question in English if more than one exists. So your sentence is ungrammatical in English.
Admittedly, it's a terribly confusing sentence in English. But the correct word order is indeed "What will they have become?". To answer this phrase, you would reply "They will have become....".
Same for me. I do not see anything wrong putting the word in that order. Can a native speaker help please ?
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The first correct solution - what will they've become? - sounds wrong to my native English speaker ears.
It is not contracted. Always "they have" in English; in this context never "they've". Add "in a few years" to the sentence and it would give a bit of context.
Assuming this is the Conjectural Future Tense I would translate it as "I wonder what they have become?"
I understand it differently. Think of it as a reply in question form to the conjectural statement "they must have become (=they will have become) some sort of success story by now", countered by: "I doubt it. what will they have become?"
No, divertare always takes essere as it's auxiliary. http://www.wordreference.com/conj/ItVerbs.aspx?v=diventare
It seems this would be the correct translation if it said sarrano stato diventate
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"What will they have become?" is unnatural to my ears, (I'm a native English speaker). "What will have become of them." sounds far more natural to me.
It's incorrect because 'they have' should not be abbreviated in this sentence (it's future perfect). I can't think of an instance where this question would be asked, but the correct order is 'what will they have become'.
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why was my answer of "what will have they become" not accepted - it is the same as in the header of this discussion? Suggested answer is "What will they've become?" - just abbreviated!
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That sounds really awkward to me with double inverted auxiliaries .. I would have said 'what will they have become?'
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what will have they become is virtually meaningless! In English word order is crucial to meaning.
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"Diventate" is for a group of women, but if there is just one man in the group the correct word is "diventati"
The awkwardness is "will have (become, here). " The only context I can think of : "We will have (to be late, start the tour over) should ( we wait on.......if we..).."
There is a slight difference in meaning between "What will they become?" and "What will they have become?". The latter is something that will happen after a specific time or event in the future. The question alone sounds odd, but if more information is added it gets more sense. For example: "What will they have become after passing through that?" Another possible translation to English is the conjectural use, as GregHullender suggests in a comment above: "I wonder what they have become?"
