"Eri venuto dalla città."

Translation: You had come from the city.

[BobbieBFree]

I give up! I don't know when to use essere or avere as auxiliary.

[Weird_Ed]

Most verbs use avere. Usually verbs that express movement - use essere. Examples: "io sono andato" (I have gone) "lui è venuto" (he has come) etc. Good luck:)

[J-Martinez66]

You are on level 17 now that's amazing! Congrats thanks for not giving up. :-)

[Marninger]

You might want to read up on Trapassato prossimo at Duo Lingo or, much better, at ThoughtCo

Trapassato prossimo di Venire (to come)

io . . . . . ero venuto/a (I had come)
tu . . . . . eri venuto/a
lu/lei . . era venuto/a
noi . . . . eravamo venuti/e
voi . . . . eravate venuti/e
loro . . . eravano venuti/e

[tessroselli]

I haven't come across 'eri' before - can anyone explain it?

[naomiflora]

It is you imperfect of the verb Essere. It's used here to make the trapassato tense with the imperfect auxiliary verb and past participle

[Josomers]

Why is eri venuta incorrect ?

[LoriQuaid]

Since we don't know the gender of "you" I agree that "venuta" seems equally acceptable.

[Phillip925513]

I agree, venuta should be accepted

[jjjenit]

You're correct

[Sremac67]

I've heard "È rivenuto dalla città." which means He came back from the city. This was marked wrong, of course, but my question for a native Italian is: Do "eri venuto" and "è rivenuto" sound exactly the same or there is some difference?

[jjjenit]

eri venuto = you were coming . Rinvenuto = found . Ritornato = returned

[ClaudeMedearis]

I heard "Eri vennto".
The pronunciation needs help.

[Krisbaudi]

Can I also use: you had arrived from the city?

[otomazeli]

Translation is wrong showin we instead of you

[Carissa675456]

Why eri and not sei?

[PATRICKPIZ1]

the new 'type what you hear' format makes it hard to see what you are typing and difficult to correct typos or access the accented vowels

[afkathomas]

Am i getting confused here?... can't dalla città also mean "TO the city"?

[Marninger]

"Da" sometimes can be translated as "to" but the basic meaning is "from".

https://www.wordreference.com/iten/da

You might see "dalle 09.00 alle 17.00" on the door to a shop, and "dalla città" = from the city.

[afkathomas]

Thank you!

[ourakoz]

Why is this in my Medicine topic? I'm quite confused

[daniel87359]

Can "dalla città" mean "to the city"?

Can "Vado da Roma" mean "I am going to Rome"?

Can "da" means "to"?

[MaryD428783]

again, in English we would say, YOU CAME from the city

[agusnina]

I think my translation has the same sense

[jamesjiao]

We can't read your mind. Next time, make sure you include your translation... .

[lukman.ku]

What was your translation?