"You and I drink wine."

Translation: Io e te beviamo vino.

[h0w412d]

Why "io e te" and not "io e tu"?

[mhotwagner]

For real. You is in the subject position here. Isn't "tu" a subject pronoun and "te" an object pronoun?

[itastudent]

You are right. "Io e te" is an exception to the rule. It should be "Io e tu" but it's today felt incorrect, and I'm pretty positive that grammars books consider "Io e tu" incorrect as well. This exception is valid only with this exact expression. If you revert the two pronouns, you should say "Tu ed io" ("Tu e me" and "Te ed io" are incorrect, although you could hear the latter in regional dialects).

[Hedwi9]

I wrote 'Te e io beviamo del vino' and it was accepted.. but it seems to be wrong on more than one level.

[sofocle]

quando saremo cinquanta a chiederci perchè i soggetti vengono sempre invertiti, forse qualcuno ci risponderà, nel frattempo invertiamoli!

[ggorzki]

Exactly, why?

[chemacasado]

Yes, why?

[gbrown28]

For any people that have studied French, I think that in Italian "ti" is "te" in French and "te" is toi" in French as well. So, in French, one would say "Moi et toi nous buvons du vin"

[RobertHorny]

why tu e (or ed) io bevo vino is wrong?

[emily.simp1]

Because you + I = we drink = beviamo

[PhilZam]

None of the three options is correct as the order is YOU and I, not I and you as the translation suggests (whatever the correct idiomatic way of expressing I and You

[Chrismakem]

Why can't I use ti here?