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- "Loro dicono di no."
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yoooo hey confused italian learners, the "di" is there when it isn't a direct quote. They could have given a looooooooong winding answer, but instead of quoting them exactly, you could add "di" to emphasize that though their answer was no, that wasn't their exact words. thats why the "lui dice ciao" dosn't have "di" because lui probably did just say "Ciao" hope that helps! Ciao ciao!
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I think it corresponds to the english "that", as in "They say that diamonds are a girl's best friend". Adding "que" to the response in spanish is the way to give a complete, formal response to a question: "¿Qué dicen ellos? Ellos dicen que..."
As far as I could understand this "di" would replace a "que" in Spanish when using indirect speech: "Ellos dicen que si". They both allow the person who is communicating a message using reporting speech to summarise someone's answer in a simple statement, which details are either not relevant or not supposed to be disclosed.
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I think I get this ! Di is like „que” in Spanish or „că” in Romanian, for example El dice que no/ El zice că nu. Strange, but makes sense! :)