"Dove sono gli idraulici?"

Translation: Where are the plumbers?

[TheGandalf]

They're off saving the world from Bowser!

[Twinkle_M]

I was just about to comment that lol

[Wichito390]

Dove sono Mario e Luigi?

[AlexBassis]

Came here for that.

[marcoreos]

They're in another castle!

[james_a_acosta]

Loro sono nel regno del fungo.

[bilboburgler]

so not hydraulics then?

[LiamRowe]

Non in questo caso :)

[DoogDiHoogland]

We're in the occupations section, not automobiles!

[LLucan]

I think "gli" in this case would be "gl" so the correct answer would be gl'idraulci and not gli idraulici. Please tell me if I am wrong.

[pierugofoz]

Nowadays, the article "gli" (as well as the article "le") rarely (never) takes the apostrophe, also in front of words beginning with the same vowel.
gli idraulici - gli italiani - gli insetti - le erbe - le eliche - le entrate
http://www.treccani.it/lingua_italiana/domande_e_risposte/grammatica/grammatica_186.html

[hilaryllewellyn]

In Italy they must have the same problem waiting around for plumbers to turn up as we do in Britain!

[62alex]

Why "gli"?

[pierugofoz]

"gli" is the article you have to use in front of all masculine plural nouns beginning with:
. . . vowel . . .s+consonant . . . . . z
gli uomini . . gli studenti . . . . gli zaini

[CraigPickering]

I wrote 'dove' for 'where is' and it was marked wrong, on an earlier question. Yet it's right here. Why?

[GregHullender]

Dove sono is "where are"; dov'è is a contraction of "dove è" and it means "where is". Did you leave out the apostrophe, perhaps?

[Jewelsster]

Where are the plumbers? Off saving Princess Daisy, no doubt!

[hookedhand]

Peach*

[deactivated user]

But Peach is more famous for that!

[Fjompeji]

Do Italians really put such extreme emphasise on the word idraulici?

[ocantu1987]

when can you use "Gli" ? is it only for plural words?

[pierugofoz]

you must use the article gli in front all masculine plural words (nouns and adjectives) starting with a vowel or s+consonant or z
- gli alberi (the trees), gli alti pini (the tall pines)
- gli studenti (the students), gli sporchi fiumi ( the dirty rivers)
- gli zaini (the backpacks)

[Waterip0]

Either the Ice World or the Jungle World...

[Dan470764]

Why dove and not dov'e?

[Carissa789117]

Dov'e is singular: "Where is the plumber?" Dove sono is plural: " Where are the plumbers?"

[MagdalenaK10017]

"where are the hydraulics" should be added as correct answer as well .

[lpr504]

They are plumbing somewhere.

[paraguaijin]

it's what i want to know
i never can find one in my neighborhood, they're always too busy

[N1ckn1ck]

She is definitely saying vi in the slow version. I got it right because I knew it couldn't be that. I wrote gli even though that is not what I heard.

[a-muktar]

Busy flushing someone out, Spencer.

[mprdo]

Watergate you say? No, no plumbers here... 6Jul15

[mickeymouse1955]

I know it's been awhile you made your comment, but I remember Watergate as if it was yesterday. 'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....'

[MAMIPILY]

They be saving the princess, cap'n!

[deactivated user]

Mario is stuck in a green pipe, while Luigi is eating some canoles.

[Carissa789117]

Off eating magic mushrooms.

[XyloPiano]

The princess invited them over for a picnic. Sure was nice of her, eh Luigi?

[JosephT.Madawela]

President Nixon's group

[Pay-tan]

Why hydraulics isn't accepted?

[O1IEtoe5]

half the time it marks me correct before i even complete the phrase--this technology is trash

[smitty_x]

Is this the ordinary, commonly used word for plumbers? Isn't there a word derived from the Latin "plumbum," like the English word "plumber"?

[DJJG7]

That's a good question to wonder about. Whenever I think of one like that, I go to the English Wikipedia page for the English word, and then I find the link there to the language that I want. So I went to "Plumber" in English, clicked on "Italiano," and got this: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idraulico

It seems to answer your question and seems also to show what the word on the street is about the matter. I hope this helps!