"Di dove sono?"
Translation:Where are they from?
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Try looking at exactly why you want to write "Dai" I suspect that you won't find a good reason and that will be why you can''t use it. Hope this helps :)
"Da" is used with the venire word. The phrase usually explains a place where the person has just come from (i.e. I come from the bookstore).
"Di" is used with the essere word. It usually explains a nationality of someone (i.e. I am from Jamaica).
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I gather that venire takes "da"--so it's Leonardo comes from Vinci.
And: Di dove Leonardo? Leonardo di Vinci. Let's go visit him.
I think. We all need Italian speakers to check this stuff with.
di = of. Di dove sono? = Where am I of? da = from. Da dove vengo? = Where do I come from? I think that's just how they say it.
Maybe i am oldfashioned, but I was taught never to end a sentence with a preposition. Therefore it should be: "From where are they?" However, DL does not accept this answer.
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That is not and has never been a rule. Multiple academic sources support this contention. Here is one: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/prepositions-ending-a-sentence-with Still, a very funny episode from the old TV series Designing Women went something like this: at a high society function the main character asked a lady, “where are y’all from”? The lady stuck her nose in the air and said, “I’m from where we don’t end a sentence with a preposition”. The questioner rephrased with, “Oh, where are y’all from b****?”
There is a mistake in aplication. Appers that it should be a translation
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In English, ending a sentence with a prepostion is bad. It's the kind of thing up with which I will not put.
Incorrect English to end a sentence like this, using "from". From where are they should have been accepted. Now it causes me to retype the whole think again. No, grazie.
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According to duolingo: di dove sono and da dove sono mean " where are they from". Makes no sense to me.
