"Il ragno è sotto il formaggio?"

Translation: Is the spider under the cheese?

[masterwow]

don't eat the cheese

[mowog]

O tagliare il formaggio

[Alan495999]

or the spider!

[Emilkbjorn]

Why is this a question? Couldn't it also have meant:

The spider is under the cheese.

[Warren2412]

As far as I understand questions and statements are identical in Italian, with the only difference being the tone it's said with / the presence of a question mark.

Unlike in English when we have to reshuffle some of the words around to make a question a statement and vice versa.

[CrownMP]

Question mark at the end but otherwise yee

[deactivated user]

I hope not

[doomsday9]

how does a spider get under a block/slice of cheese?

[WolkZayets]

If you use the cheese to smash the spider...

[Mollgigi]

Isn't sotto a preposition in this example from the adverbs module?

[JoyQuietler]

I hope not!

[Joanna602590]

In some sentences I find it hard to estimate which one is a question, like this one.

[Jae633849]

Spero davvero di no!

[Tsarkhad]

typical

[Robert.Bateman]

Why is "The spider is it under the cheese?" wrong

[RenatoSSTradutor]

Because it's not proper English. The word order that you write is just... wrong.

[WolkZayets]

You don't need "it" in this case. If you say, "The spider is under the cheese?", it means you are surprised to hear that the spider is under the cheese. If you say, "Is the spider under the cheese?", it means that you don't know if it's under the cheese or not.

[Fiona937368]

my translation in Italian was correct but repeatedly says incorrect.

[RobertBruc14]

IEU!!! What a question. I hope it doesn't come up often in conversation.

[Roseanna223913]

eeeeewwwwwwwww