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"Do you all like apples?"
Translation:Vi piacciono le mele?
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Why not "vi piacciono mele"? The sentence to translate is "do you all like apples?", not "do you all like THE apples".
Because of the word order in English. The English statement says "you all like apples". Since there is not a word meaning "you plural" in English, they use "you all" to clarify that you are talking about the Italian "voi". If the English statement was "you like all apples" then you would be right
Just think lie am American Southener. I lve in Texss an regularly hear y'all or you all. Having groen up i Calif, I normaly say you guys, but y'all is comon from the Atlantic to the Rio Grande! It was also common in Elizabethan English when we were going from thou/you to just you, but y'all remains so I just connect vi snd voi eith the South!
The test sentence says 'you all' indicating more than one person being asked the question, hence plural vi not singular ti.
Slightly confused. you = piacete and they = piacciono vi = you, each other, one another... How does one know if we are speaking 2nd person plural or 3rd person plural? Grazie
i translated it like this and it was marked wrong - only because of the word order? duolingo said it has to be "vi piacciono le mele" ...
Because Ti is singular and the question is - Do you all, which is plural hence the Vi.
I believe it is because the verb 'piacere' is being used and therefore the sentence will actually translate to 'The apples are pleasing to them'. Correct me if i'm wrong. x
Another sentence in this lesson was "Vi piace la frutta," if I'm not mistaken. So why was I wrong to say, "Vi piace le mele?" instead of "Vi piacciono le mele?"
La frutta is singular, so you use the singular form of the verb (the fruit pleases you). Le mele are plural so you need the plural verb (the apples please you).
'Do all of you like apples?' is how it is said outside america. (Actually, it means a bit more than, 'Do you like apples?' But 'you all' is dialect.)
Yes I know but dl only uses you all so we know it is voi and not tu, since there is no difference in English (you)
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Piacono assumes that the "you' in the question is plurali It actually works both ways but, yet again, DUO won't accept it!!
Why not "a vi" which is the construction used with piace in other sentences.
This craziness that you plural can only be translated in English as "you all", or the hillbilly American "y'all" has got to stop! It is a blemish on Duolingo. "You" in English can be singular or plural, and any translation without the "'all" is perfectly correct.
This madness really has to stop.
The test sentence says 'you all' indicating more than one person being asked the question, hence plural vi is required not singular ti.
im pretty sure i got it right! But of course Duoling just HAD to add the A! Oh! Did i say "im" and "i" instead of "I'm" and "I"? Oh, I'm SORRY!!!
I think Yellowboat is suggesting punctuation marks were missing and DL didn't accept.
It should accept "Ti piacciono le mele" also. It doesn't, but you could be asking one person instead of two or more.
The test sentence says 'you all' indicating more than one person being asked the question, hence plural vi is required not singular ti.
