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- "Le vacanze sono a novembre."
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In this context it's not 'a vacation' but 'days off' or 'vacation days'.
edit: Actually 'le vacanze' is used quite a lot for 'the vacation' as in this sentence. However vacanze can also be 'days off' or 'holidays' as in 'Quante vacanze hai?'. So I think that's what is behind the use of the plural.
If the translation refers to vacation days why isn't the plural "are" used?
in this case what we refer to as singular in English is referred to as a plural in italian and vice versa
ischweagle, because in the translation it is not a plural. (and in Italian they do use the verb in plural)
It is because the Italian names for the months are different to the English ones (assuming you meant to say novembre not november)
If it were in English, instead of American, could be either 'the holiday is in November' or 'the holidays are in November'. Meanings might vary a little e.g 'my holiday is in November' or 'there are three public holidays in November'.
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I have learned from another source (Learn Italian For Travel....I love this ladie's videos and explanations) that the Italian "a" can be used to say the English "to", "at" or "in". The Italian "in" is used only for the English "in". I do not know how to attach a hyperlink but I find her on YouTube. Try copying this to your browser for her video on simple prepositions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUWgXUuhB_M
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Oh, I'm excited! I see now that the link I simply copied and pasted to my comment is automatically converted to a hyperlink after I hit post! I checked and the link above takes you directly to the video. I hope you find it helpful.
