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"We are not in April, but in October."
Translation:Non siamo in aprile, ma in ottobre.
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Here you have to use " ad " instead of " a ", because both months here start with a vowel.
I used ad before both months and was marked incorrect...again why the use of 'in'?
Yeah, so then this answer should then use 'ad' on both occasions. I just saw an answer by f.formicca on the previous question that 'in' is rarely used for months and more for seasons... Unless there is a grammatical president? Then the use of 'a' here is incorrect or, at least, unusual.
I still don't understand bensi. Having spent time in Italy to learn Italian, I don't remember ever hearing the word bensi. I used "ma" or "però". Now it is possible that I didn't "hear" bensi because it wasn't yet in my vocabulary but I heard "ma" and "però" all the time, therefore it became part of my vocabulary.
Ive never seen or heard bensi (but rather) being used, ive seen 'anzi' used though
That doesn't fully answer it, I am afraid. So if I said "we are not in april but rather in october", it has the same meaning, no? So why not "non siamo in aprile bensì in ottobre"? Or does "bensì" has any other connotations that are not welcome in this context?
well, there is a differencewhich I cannot explain in Enlish. I looked it up in my dictionary English-Dutch and that clearified. So I advise you to look it up in the dictionary English- "your language". Hope that helps. Good luck :)
I still fail to understand why it's invalid. Judging by simple dictionary lookups on the web, this sentence seems like a perfect application for "bensì". Based on the few basic things I have learned so far, depending on idiomatics and the possibility that using "bensì" might be considered a bit formal and/or verbose, it could very well be 'more correct' or at least 'more precise' to use in this case than "ma".
How does this translate to dutch? You translated but rather and but and understood the difference of the dutch translation?
Bensi is very rarely used. Maybe in some textbooks or in a speech or something. You will hardly ever hear it spoken. Ma is informal and però Is formal. You can use Ma only between two sentences where però can be used at the end of a sentence. It's more like saying however. also, però is kind of the stronger version of ma. Like if your saying I wanted to enjoy my neighbor's music, but it's way too loud. Kind of like an exclamation of something that you're serious about.
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non siamo in aprile, bensì in ottobre not accepted 8 May 2018.
Probably because the English is "but" and not "but rather". bensì is unnecessarily verbose.
il pero = the pear tree. Però (with accent) = however. (see my comment at the bottom for the Dutch. ;)
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però = "but" - you need the accented ò.
non siamo in aprile, però in ottobre accepted 8 May 2018.
That would be "ad aprile" and "ottobre" (assuming "ottombre" is a typo). When the last vowel in a word is the same as the first letter of the next word, the former needs the suffix d.
Why is bensì not accepted? Shouldn't bensì be a better word to use instead of ma?
The correction shows me: Non siamo ad aprile ma a ottobre. Can anyone explain why it is not two "ad", or two "a"?
It is normally "a" but changes to "ad" if the word following it also begins with an "a" (hence, ad aprile) also, you'll probably see the same if the word that follows is a vowel but it's not mandatory to do here, only if it's also "a"
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When you make one or more mistakes (other than a single minor spelling error), Duolingo will just show an answer that is correct. It doesn't attempt to analyse the actual error you made. There may - and probably are - other correct answers that it accepts.
Hi Joost, missed the "reply" button, so a new line here. "bensi" - maar wel/ maar juist. "oppure" - of. "ma" - maar/ echter/ doch. Hope this helps... By the way: però (accent!) - echter/ maar. (Il pero = the pear tree, la pera = the pear)
Then i still don't understand why bensi could not be used in this sentence.
I think you are right here, it should be accepted wouldn't it? Was it marked wrong?
The answer given was ...ad aprile...a ottobre. Here it says ...in...in... A bit of consistency would be good!
Duolingo, would you please clear up the use of... a Aprile as opposed to.. in Aprile..... How can you expect people to get this right when you do a poor job of explaining or don't explain at all the differences in usage.... Makes me want to quit this app
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Very confused. Here the sentence says "in aprile" before it was "a/ad aprile". Can someone explain please.
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Why can't it be "... a aprile... a ottobre" My understanding is the "d" and use of "ad" is optional, though preferable.
I'm not understanding when to use for example "a ottobre" versus "in ottobre" . Both seem to have the same meaning (in October) but clearly they are not interchangable as an error can result. Can someone explain how to know which is correct?
If you just said "ma ottobre" would that be understandable to an italian? Or does that English rhetorical device not transfer?
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In most circumstances, This sentence sounds kinda silly, Surely you wouldn't think it's April in October, But this year?
The weather might be similar. So if there are no plants around....
In instead of a. Oh common, your having a laugh. Have you got my worst enemy, the mucca Felicity Barron Brown working there?
