Topic: Italian

"Dove saranno tenute le bottiglie di vino?"

Translation:Where will the bottles of wine be kept?

June 18, 2013

8 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/morabito1

    another possible solution is,, where will they keep the bottles of wine?

    June 18, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/f.formica
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    • 2088

    Well, the original sentence is passive, so there's nothing to tell you it's "they". I could be speaking about my own bottles.

    June 18, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/Lodoviko
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    • 291

    When one sees the verb "essere," suspect the passive, è vero?

    September 20, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/f.formica
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    • 2088

    Yes, suspect; but unfortunately there isn't always a clear indicator :) An auxiliary that clearly implies the passive is venire: "dove verranno tenute le bottiglie di vino?".

    September 20, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/tani17
    • 1691

    why not "where will they have kept the bottles of wine"?

    May 1, 2014
    https://www.duolingo.com/adamyoung97

      That would be “Dove avranno tenuto le bottiglie di vino?”

      June 6, 2014
      https://www.duolingo.com/suzzec

        I wrote "where will the bottles of wine have been kept?" Is that not right because there was no avranno? Confusing!

        July 2, 2014
        https://www.duolingo.com/GregHullender

          The sentence is passive but you made it active.

          August 17, 2014
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