"Il periodo va da ottobre a dicembre."

Translation: The period goes from October to December.

[GeorgeHafiz]

The poor girl.

[Martin135869]

Jokes about menstruation are the lowest form of humor. Period!

[JaceyXD]

Yeah poor bloody girl

[Justin581205]

This time of the year has the heaviest flow

[KatarinaRankovic]

I wrote "The period lasts from October to December" and it was wrong - is this unacceptable?

[dnovinc]

I think "The period lasts..." would be "Il periodo dura..."

[JenniferRi274490]

So did I.

[Ans216459]

Same here

[MarkDeVernon]

"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]

[5LuQ3]

But they do not accept 'lasts".

[bilboburgler]

not very good english it would be better to say the period "runs"

[PeterC93]

I thought it would be "The period HE goes.." as it says "Va" .. ?

[twisted_fool]

he\she\it all use the same conjugation, so here va means IT goes; IT is the period, so "the period goes"

[RichardDonovan95]

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.

[Shane_Hicks]

The audio in this is atrocious.

[JoaoBDuarte]

aren't 'term' and 'period' the same?

[Jeffrey855877]

"The period runs from October to December" accepted 14 May 2018

[Erated8]

I Am Very Confused, What Does This Mean??

[RobBlaney]

I wrote "Il periodo fra..." The period is from... Oh well.

[PeterC93]

'fra' is actually 'between' so contextually that would work, unfortunately it's not the exact translation though!

[Ariaflame]

Except you'd be missing a verb still.

[bilboburgler]

period's... is it wise to be using this sloppy style of English?

[arekolek]

Why not "da ottobre ad dicembre"?

[Ariaflame]

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

[Emmahele]

For sound good when you rent a house by month

[deactivated user]

Why is it "da ottobre" and not "d'ottobre"?

[ElakVarg]

"d'" is for "di", "da" is not shortened. As far as I know.

[ElakVarg]

Can we use "since ... till"?

[YuliGunn]

Here I would say, "The period runs from October to December."

[DeMMArn]

It accepted : The period is from October to December.

[Petra_Mambo]

Would'nt "The season" be a better translation?

[JenniferRi274490]

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'.

[GregDAugustine]

time span marked wrong... Also "the period runs..." marked wrong.

[JillianPeraccini]

I thought "va" meant "comes" and not "goes"?

[0gRTq46D]

Did not give me enough time