"Poi arrivano le donne."
Translation:Then the women arrive.
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You can move around the words in a sentence if you want to stress something. In this case it's "le donne". "Poi le donne arrivano" is a plain statement with no stress.
Yes, but can't it change the meaning of the statement? Maybe to something like "Then they arrive (to) the women"?
That would be "poi arrivano dalle donne". Muttley is right, there is only a difference of emphasis, another way to reword the same sentence is "le donne arrivano poi".
f.formica, could you please explain why it can't be translated as "the women arrive later"? My italian friends says it's correct.. I would appreciate your help. Thanks
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Not sure of that. "Le donne arrivano poi" Wouldn't it be translated as: women arrive later... then = right after or at the time something takes place; later= undefined moment after the thing happened... similar but different.
You need to check the verb. "Arrivare" takes an indirect object (that is, it doesn't answer to the question "who/what" Ex: I eat an apple. I eat what? An apple.) That's why "le donne" can only be the subject in this sentence, even if it is not in its usual place :-)
Thanks, I'm still uncertain when it comes to prepositions, working on it though.
This is not the meaning of the sentence that would translate as "le donne arrivano [più] tardi" whereas here the meaning is that the women arrive after something has happened or someone has arrived.
Poi assormiglia la parola adverbiale Allora. Non cosi "tardi" piu tardi" inritardo" Le donne arrivano al punto di poi/essatamente poi
I wish I could write "the ladies" instead of "the women". "The women" does sound a bit weird to me.
I can empathize with that. Where I come from it's extremely common to refer to your sons as boys e.g. 'hey how are you boys doing?' = I'm asking you how your two sons are ... So every time I translate figlio, I get into trouble because inevitably my brain translates figlio to son, but my mouth splurts out boy instead. Of course only son is correct, so I either have to break the habit somehow, or else continue to lose a heart.
This brings up that this English is a bit awkward and wouls have to be in the middle of a conversation
After the heated debate here, all I can say is that the most important thing is that the ladies (aka women) have arrived (have come), after all:)
"to come" = "venire". "To arrive" = "arrivare". While there are sentences avere "to come" may mean "to arrive", I'd stick to the translation.
bepeace Poi le donne vengono a noi makes sense Poi le donne arrivano makes sense using arrivare al luogo
Potrebbe essere la estructurazione piú comune a dire e facil di capire nell'Italiano " Allora/Poi le donne arrivano al punto della riunione"
A 'female human being' is also a woman. Yet the example sentence has donna which is 'woman' in English, not 'lady'
The tense is wrong in this sentence when translated to English...it should say "Then the woman arrived"
ashleyschirstina It's not intended to use the past tense in the exercising. Poi le donne arrive could be more of Then the arriving (of) the women (present progressive)
RainIsHere Because it is intended to express a present progressive taking place when ? Then not in the end/nor late.
Bizarre: I wrote 'oi' rather than 'poi' and it was accepted as correct!
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What's wrong with "In the end the women arrive" or "The women arrive in the end"
In the previous appearance of this sentence in this lesson - in english for translation into italian - we were told that 'poi le donne arrivano' was the answer. What price word order Duolingo?!
What's wrong with "then the ladies arrive" ladies is a synonym for women.
'lady' is not a synonym for woman.
There is no such a musical as 'My Fair Woman', nor a superhero movies called 'Cat Lady'. Hyacinth Bucket did not answer the phone with "the woman of the house speaking" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T0eXFpCx9c&t=26s). D. H. Lawrence d not write 'Woman Chatterley's lover'
It's not after anything: that would be le donne arrivano poi.
poi at the beginning of the sentence means 'then'.