"Da dove vengono?"

Translation: Where do they come from?

[Interrobang3]

Da dove vieni,

Dove vai,

Da dove vieni,

Cotton Eye Joe

[dunk999]

I had successfully drubbed that song from my brain until today. I rue my choice to look at the comments for this sentence.

[KingCowan]

Bravo!

[PkFf9D]

Occhio di cotone Giuseppe

[MadeByPandas]

Dove sei andato*

[Guillhez]

Ok, so I've seen both "da dove" and "di dove", is there a difference?

[harrison0723]

I guess it depends on what comes after dove. In this case it is veng'ono', thus d'a'.

[dennisporto]

"Where are they from?" - should this be correct?

[sparkyalbatross]

I was about to ask the same question. Maybe this is only "where do they come from" in the immediate sense - that is "where are they from" could be asking about their nationality, for example, whereas, "where are they coming from" would be asking where they were immediately before here.

i am totally speculating, though. :/

[kayebullock1]

I have so much difficulty understanding the male speaker.

[bg1888]

I'm confused with sentence structure, why not (Dove vengono da?)

[Rianna121206]

"Da dove vengono?" vs. "Di dove sono?" Can anyone explain why?

[dfrenchone]

What about "From whence do they come?" I can see why they wouldn't require that, but it's not wrong, is it?

[Raftus]

"Whence" already contains the idea of "from", so it is actually wrong to say that, even though "whence" is a great word. "From where..." or "Whence..." is what you want. And if you use "whence" you want to stick "sire" in there somewhere too.

[Weylin366674]

Whither go ye, m'lud?

[CatMcCat]

It is correct, but extremely old-fashioned. No one would speak that way, unless they were deliberately trying to sound archaic.

[orionthefrenchie]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that Italian doesn't really distinguish between "where do they come from" and "where are they coming from." But those sentences have quite different meanings - how would you express those ideas in Italian?