"How many gifts do the newlyweds receive?"
Translation:Quanti regali ricevono gli sposi?
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Well! I peeked on newlyweds and they gave me 'sposini', but then Duo tells me it's 'sposi' (which was my first hunch anyway)... So which is correct? Thanks.
'sposini' is the diminutive of 'sposi', but they can respectively be translated as 'newlyweds' and 'spouses', which is kind of the same thing and I think the meaning is interchangeable. Correct me if I'm wrong.
"Quanti regali gli sposi ricevono?" <-- What is wrong with that? Why must I enter "ricevono" before "gli sposi"?
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It's just the structure of the grammar in Italian. It helps to translate confusing sentences in English and find out how to structure a sentence.
How many (quanti) gifts (regali) do they receive (ricevono) the newlyweds (gli sposi).
How many gifts do they receive? Who? The newlyweds!
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I disagree. Both sentences are correct, I feel the little difference in "externalities": the 'correct' versions asks how many presents were given to these people (and not to another person celibrating his birthday), the 'incorrect' one asks how many gifts did they actually receive (e.g. except the one we forgot to bring and will send later).
When you look at the English sentence, you start to realise that we construct our questions in the same way, with the verb (do...receive/ricevono) going before the subject (the newlyweds/ gli sposi).
So we can try to look at it this way as well:
Quanti (How many) regali (gifts) ricevono (do...receive) gli sposi (the newlyweds)?
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The issue is they're talking about the gifts being received, not the newlyweds receiving them. The gifts are the subject, not the newlyweds.
It's just a thing with Italian. And I am quite sure it is the case because it's the same thing for Spanish.
Thanks, ive never understood when to use 'gli' either. Thanks for explaining this.
What is wrong with 'i novelli sposi'? DL doesn't accept this and yet it differentiates (as does sposini) between sposi (generic married couple) and newly-weds...which I thought was the point of the question. Maybe novelli sposi is archaic Italian- any comments from native speakers?
I am Italian and I would translate "sposi novelli or novelli sposi". As far as I know it is not archaic Italian and it is currently used as a wish. For example: Auguri e felicità ai novelli sposi!
"Quanti regali gli sposi ricevono?" What is wrong with that translation? We're told that in Italian the word order in a question can be like a statement. I read all the previous comments. No one asks about the word order in a question.
This is just my observation, I don't know if there is any formal rule or even a convention involved here. English is just fine with having the verb be the final word in the sentence; Italian (at least as taught by DL) prefers the verb to come along a bit more quickly. Since this sentence is interrogative, the question "how many" comes first in both languages. Then Italian wants the verb, English is okay with delaying the verb.
Again, I'm not saying this is any sort of rule, but keeping this construct in mind has helped me as I navigate these DL modules.
Is "Gli sposini quanti regali ricevano" really wrong? I've seen this construction here on Duo before...
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The translation for 'newlyweds' is given as 'sposini' in the hover hints, but the translation above gives 'sposi.' Which is it?
and up above it was said that "sposini" and "sposi" are more or less interchangeable. So is "sposini" being marked wrong just another duo glitch or is it really wrong and no Italian would use it?
and if it really is wrong, then could someone explain the difference between "sposini" and "sposi" and when to use each? thanks!
Why is "Quanti regali ricevono i neosposi?" considered incorrect by Duolingo?
Why not quanti i regali? I thought article is always required in Italian. It has been true for me until this .
Gli - for masculine nouns before vowels, Z, S+consonant, GN and some rarer consonant clusters.
They bait you in with the "giovani" part to make you believe that "newlyweds" could be translated to "young spouses". Cause "sposi" could just mean "spouses". Is there such a concept of recently married versus been married in italy? If there is, then maybe the question should use that. That way we can learn to be more italian in thinking and not just translating english to english words in italian.
Can anyone explain why my answer of "Quanti regali ricevono i sposini" was not accepted.
Try gli sposini
I’m not sure about “sposini” but you definitely have the wrong article (“i”)
The plural definite articles (the) are:
- Gli - for masculine nouns before vowels, Z, S+consonant, GN and some rarer consonant clusters.
- I - for masculine nouns in all other cases.
- Le - for feminine nouns.
Hard to explain the difference between the languages, but in Italian the structure of this sentence is more like:
“How many gifts are gifted to the newlyweds?”
Yes it is wrong because it is in a past tense and the original sentence is in a present tense
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Gotta love "how many gifts receive the newlyweds?" Depends how many newlyweds there are