"I see them when I arrive in the station."
Translation:Le vedo quando arrivo in stazione.
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They are assuming here that they arrivals were all female. Both answer should be correct though, it accepted 'li vedo' for me.
Thank you for that explanation. I am glad that there is a reason, if not obvious, behind DL's rejection. Molto grazie.
It is not loro because
I = subject, the one doing the action = io
see, when I arrive at the station = verb, the action = the verb vedere
them = clitic direct object, the recipient of the action = li/le 3rd person plural m or m+f/f.
subject - direct object - verb -->
Io li/le vedo quando arrivo in stazione -->
li/le vedo quando arrivo in stazione
"Loro" is a so-called 'tonic pronoun'. Tonic pronouns come after the verb.
So if you want to use "loro" instead of the clitic pronoun "le", the sentence is to be rephrased as "Vedo loro in stazione".
Could 'le' be substituted by 'li' or 'gli' here, and what would be the difference in meaning?
Never mind- "gli" is an indirect pronoun, and we need a direct pronoun (in this case, "le"). :)
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First I wrote "vedo loro" and it corrected me to "vedo li". I passed the unit a second time, wrote "vedo li", and it corrected me to "vedo loro". There is an obvoius error here.
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In English it's usually "arrive at" not "in", although it would still be translated as "arrivo in". The English sentence doesn't sound quite right
li was accepted for me. it's the male form which is the default when the gender of the subjects is not known
It told me I had a typo and I should have put 'io', but that's not in the word bank, so how could I?
When we have "check the box" questions, I wish the phrases were more similar so we could really test ourselves on verb tense, articles, pronouns, etc.
If this is in future tense in English should read : I will see them when I arrive at the station'.
