- Forum >
- Topic: Italian >
- "La risposta del capitano arr…
23 Comments
I agree, comes is the best in this case. The verbs to go, to come, to arrive are always used slightly differently in every language.
If it's still not accepted, please report it and we will change it! :)
1155
Well it's 5 years later and 'The captain's answer comes today' was marked as wrong on 19 July 2020, with the correct answer given as "arrives", which sounds stilted and unnatural to my native British English ears - perhaps it's another American idiom?
As a native British English speaker, I sense 'the Captain comes today' as slightly dissonant compared to 'the Capitain arrives today'. Perhaps a literary distinction?
- 72
Why can't this be "The response from the captain arrives today"? Does 'del' only mean 'from' when talking about a place?
The most common translation of "del" is "of the" for (the most of the) masculine singular nouns. "Dal" is the most common translation for "from the" (still for the most of the masculine singular nouns). But, you know, prepositions have never a perfect counterpart in other languages.
Anyway, I think your version could be accepted, even if its meaning would be slightly different. In this case "from the captain" could be translated into "(inviata) dal capitano". You would never say "La risposta dal capitano arriva oggi".
When you come from a place you say "Vengo dall'Italia. Per la precisione, vengo da Parma." But you say "Sono di Parma" (I am from Parma).
As you can see, there is never a perfect match with prepositions. ;)
I think that the word "response" is the problem here. They require the word "answer" instead, but tbh I don't see why...
Why was my answer using reply for answer, and comes for arrives marked wrong? It is more likely in English and means the same thing.
In English, I think "The captain's answer comes today" would be a more common phrase. "Arrives today" sounds very formal.
I put in a formal complain about it. "The answer comes today" means exactly the same thing.
- 937
I think if you're referring to someone by their occupation, rather than their name, it implies a degree of formality.
