12 Comments
gmcolletti
1858
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.
June 2, 2014
If the translation refers to vacation days why isn't the plural "are" used?
September 29, 2014
in this case what we refer to as singular in English is referred to as a plural in italian and vice versa
September 20, 2015
ischweagle, because in the translation it is not a plural. (and in Italian they do use the verb in plural)
April 2, 2015
It is because the Italian names for the months are different to the English ones (assuming you meant to say novembre not november)
December 12, 2017
