"Il periodo va da ottobre a dicembre."
Translation:The period goes from October to December.
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I wrote "The period lasts from October to December" and it was wrong - is this unacceptable?
That may be so, but "The period goes from ... to..." is just not the way you express it in English, it's a literal translation (and these are even marked wrong for many other Duo sentences ;) )
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"Il periodo va..." might be translated in English as either "The period runs..." or "The period lasts..."; as far as I am aware, we do not say "The period goes...". [UK Native speaker]
he\she\it all use the same conjugation, so here va means IT goes; IT is the period, so "the period goes"
Period's would normally be assumed to be a possessive form in written English, not a contraction of "period is." "The period's duration is one hour." In spoken English, I have heard something like "The period's too long." but it would be unlikely to be acceptable in written English.
Because dicembre doesn't start with a vowel, so doesn't need 'ad' to sound better and distinguish it from the 'a'. For a more detailed description of this, see http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/aa091708a.htm
I know that is the literal translation, but a bit of elegance is sometimes useful. I think we are more likely to say 'the period lasts' or even 'the period is'.
This is not English. One would say 'lasts' not 'goes'.' Lasts' was marked incorrect
'fra' is actually 'between' so contextually that would work, unfortunately it's not the exact translation though!
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about the English word till: Until, till, and 'til are all used in modern English to denote when something will happen. Until and till are both standard, but what might be surprising is that till is the older word. 'Til, with one L, is an informal and poetic shortening of until. The form 'till, with an additional L, is rarely if ever used today.
source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
I believe it's structurally sound to say 'it runs from October to December' not this