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"How many gifts do the newlyweds receive?"
Translation:Quanti regali ricevono gli sposi?
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"Quanti regali gli sposi ricevono?" <-- What is wrong with that? Why must I enter "ricevono" before "gli sposi"?
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).
The issue is they're talking about the gifts being received, not the newlyweds receiving them. The gifts are the subject, not the newlyweds.
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.
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!
Is "Gli sposini quanti regali ricevano" really wrong? I've seen this construction here on Duo before...
Hahaha I already asked pretty much the same thing here, wish I knew how to delete my comment
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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 .
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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.
Why are questions in Italian never ever the same as in English? Come and quanti an quello and so on: they all could mean 'how', 'what', 'when'.
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It is a different language ;-) . I am sure Italians are equally or more so frusterated while learning English. Things don't translate word for word. Try and let go of your English brain and see the logic behind the Italian system of communication.
