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- "I paesi sono diversi."
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I asked my friend over in Italy and, sure enough, paese(i) may be country(ies) or town(s) depending on context. But village is villaggio and city is citta.
Hope this helps.
Italy originally wasn't controlled by one ruler. It was split up into a bunch of little ministates, each of which had their own main town. So Venice (and the surrounding area) would have its own ruler, independent of Rome's ruler. Or at least I think that's how it was. Now there are only two ministates in Italy: San Marino and the Vatican.
And the Vatican is technically it's own country, even though it is essentially a neighbourhood, if you will, with-in the city of Rome!
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Also sovereign military order of St John of Jerusalem, Rodes and Malta which has its own diplomats and passport
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In English "country" can refer to a nation-state or to a rural area (which tends to be a subset of a nation-state). So, there are some similarities.
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My memory and my dictionary list 'paese' as country. Indeed here in the US we use the term 'paesano(a)' as a fellow countryman. 'Town' is noted as citta. (Sorry, my keyboard does not have accents.)
Yes, my dictionary translates paese as country or land and in a previous question we had town translated as citta. It is all quite confusing.
The word paesi works for countries as well as little villages,not for towns or cities
Just as clarification- I live in Italy, and it can be quite confusing whensomeone asks "from which Paese are you?" ! It's more literal translation, and how think of it, is land. So that is how it refers to any sort of land/region (states, counties) seemingly without changing meaning.
In Scotland, and other parts of the UK we sometimes use town instead of city.
Paese includes only very small towns, otherwise it means mostly village. As the term city is not congruent to the term città, town does not always mean paese (but città), only a village is always un paese.
How should i know that in this case 'towns' is correct but not 'Countries'?
How do i need to understand "diverso"?
Does that sentence say the villages are different from each other, or are they all diverse, saying each place consist of various different people?
Il paese is country and area where someone is born or live for a long time (in Croatian etc zavičaj) - it is not city or town?
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I used the wird diverse which means the same as different and a perfectly legit English word? Just saying! :)
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I am always thought that "town" is something between "village" and "city". No, they are not the same.
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Can I use paesi to mean nations (as a synonym for countries)? DL marked me wrong for 'The nations are different'
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Google translate has nations as i nazioni. I put the countries are different, which was accepted.
Couldn't it also be a generalization "Towns are different"? Duolingo marks it as wrong,but that's how it would be as a generalization in English
Duo accepts "The towns are different". Perhaps you missed the "The"?
What is the difference between town and village? In the US these things are synonyms.
Towns are much larger than villages, which are relatively small communities.
So towns are larger than villages but smaller than cities? I think I get it now.
Not all cities in the UK have a cathedral by any means, particularly the newer ones, eg Brighton, Wolverhampton and Preston (which last does have a cathedral though not of the established Anglican Church - makes a difference). They were awarded city status by virtue of their size.
according to Game of Thrones, that's exactly it. King's landing is a city, Winterfell is a castle with a village (Crofter's village) nearby, and Mole's town is a small town near the wall.
Duolingo also translates paesi to either, but villages is wrong for some reason.
Earlier in the lesson, they introduced the specific word for village...villaggio. DL wants to see if you remember it and when to use it. :-)
