"Can I invite you to lunch?"

Translation: Ti posso invitare a pranzo?

[DarienGS]

Is it really so outré to write "posso ti invitare"? ti is the object of invitare, after all, not of posso.

[coriolano77]

You should say "posso invitarti ?".

[DarienGS]

Yes, or "ti posso invitare". But I was marked wrong for "posso ti invitare", which makes more sense to me (and would be the correct order in French).

[mariaelena256]

in spanish we would say te puedo invitar..... the te is equivalent to the ti and it goes before just like in the italian

[pont]

Like you, I initially found it counterintuitive, but (at least according to the Italian Michel Thomas course I took) it really is wrong. The pronoun can go before the modal verb or at the end of the infinitive, but never between the two.