"Chi è l'altra?"

Translation: Who is the other one?

[thenino85]

This is yet another sentence that should go in a future "Romance" section.

[mattiapascal]

In the subsection 'preparing for divorce'?

[skywalker735]

does the speaker know that "the other" is woman?

[nnsph]

Because it says 'altra' rather than 'altro'.

[skywalker735]

but if we don't?
i mean if we don't surely know whether or not the thing we talk about is feminine

[Danmoller]

Well....in real life, the chance of you not knowing it is remote. You would always follow the gender of the person or the noun.

If you talk about windows, for instance, it's "altra". If you talk about "icecreams", it's "altro".

Even for unknown things you would end up choosing a gender like "altra (cosa)", "altro (oggetto)".

In this person case you might even use "altra (persona)".

[skywalker735]

umm, okay thanks.
i try to get the words.
:)

[nonnaHR]

I agree with many of the comments already posted - i.e. out of context surely you would need to indicate that the other one is actually feminine.

[ataoldotcom]

just curious; but, can this also be used to ask "who(m) else?"

[nullusaum]

Wouldn't think so, as "l'altra" has a definite article, while "who else" has a clearly indefinite ring to it ("who is that other person I see or have heard of" versus "who might be others involved in this"). The direct translation would be "chi altra/o".

[Heyho4]

Altra -female so my translation as who is the other woman is accurate....DL is useful but still wildly unreliable

[moreno174]

"who is the other woman" ~ "chi è l'altra donna"

[lidercfeny]

kinky duolingo xD

[TimEpstein]

"We are not builders, not you, or I, or the other one. We are destroyers. Destroyers."

Does anyone know who this "other one" is?

[KateOFoS]

Totally misheard it and thought it was qui è l'altra.