"In realtà hanno ragione"- is this correct? DL didn't accept it...

' si have ragione e dámmole ragione, e si have tuorto e dámmole ragione, ca sempe have ragione chi vò' bene '

I think that's more like saying fair/just than saying something is right /correct (in which you'd use avere ragione). I could be wrong though!

As far as I can tell from Reverso Context you use avere ragione to refer to a person being right but sono giusti for non-human things such calculations, suspicions, methods etc. Here are some examples of using sono giusti to mean "are right" (none refers to people):

http://context.reverso.net/traduction/italien-anglais/sono+giusti

And here are some examples of hanno ragione meaning "(they) are right" (most refer to people and those that don't are actually using the inanimate object to refer to the people who are responsible for it e.g a country, book etc)

http://context.reverso.net/traduction/italien-anglais/hanno+ragione#are+right

Yes, I would love a native speaker to comment - I understand 'avere ragione', but is the above actually incorrect? Or just not used? Or has DL missed a valid sentence?

This was just presented to me (March 2015) as one of the multiple choice answers - and marked wrong.

Infatti is not a direct translation of in fact.

Same here

It's "in realtà"

It is still not corrected as of 26/08/2014

"Giusto" is used to describe things, not people. A sentence can be "giusto" or "sbagliato": "Questa frase non è giusta, bensi è sbagliata."

But the person who spoke the sentence can "avere ragione" or not (avere torto): "Sì, hai ragione. Ho torto. Ho fatto un errore quì."

"Hanno ragione" is the general way to express "They are right" in Italian. If you did use "essere", you would have to say "sono giusti" to make it grammatically correct, but I believe that has more the sense of "They are just".

"Attualmente" is a false friend. It doesn't mean "actually" but "currently" (as in "at the present time"). When I was in Italy I had to correct myself constantly over this! "Effettivamente" is a good translation for our English word "actually". I used "in realtà" a lot in Italy too, but I feel like "effettivamente" is slightly more literal.

Mar 26/14: D.L. accepted veramente for me.

It's because you used the plural of "ragione". It should be "Hanno ragione". You don't need to make ragione plural here.

Infatti is not the same as effettivamente. Infatti means "as matter of facts", or "in fact", but the meaning is narrower in Italian than in English, and doesn't cover the effettivamente. When I've learnt English it gave me lots of headaches to accept that English tends to smear the differences between small details like this, what both Italian and my (Hungarian) language are keen to express. :) For the other way, perhaps it is even harder :)

Or "....sono vero"

Calbr: That would mean they are sure, but not necessarily right. Sono certo would mean that I think I am right, but it is not confirmed. ho raggione means that I am right and it is confirmed (by the facts, by experience, whatever).

Curlygirly: It may be true for the English (though I think it is not so similar) but definitely not true for Italian (and a bounch of other languages). Avere raggione is not "have reason" (that would be avere un motivo ) but "being right" (or correct, but that may mean other things, too. like acting the correct way, etc.)

IMHO. But I am not native in any of the two languages. :)

Ok, makes sense if it is an expression. Thank you

DL suggestions are often misleading

"Atualmente" means "currently".

That would be 'they are right/correct' when referring to answers in a book, not people. You might argue it but...

See the comment from 3 years ago by LynnSerafi, above. https://www.duolingo.com/LynnSerafi