"Lei risponde alle domande."

Translation: She answers the questions.

[padrosocrate]

se la preposizione articolata "alle" è uguale a "to the", perchè scrivete solo l'articolo determinativo e considerate sbagliato ciò che doverebbe essere giusto? Sono certo che avete una spiegazione anche per questo! Ergo, aspetto di leggerla, grazie.

[Viaggiatore]

Che cosa, secondo lei, dovrebbe essere giusto?

[padrosocrate]

I think: "she answers TO THE questions". Bye.

[Viaggiatore]

In English, "answer" is a transitive verb, and in Italian "rispondere" is not. Hence the difference. In Italian you need the preposition and in English you don't.

[gullideckel]

but it's not wrong to use "to the" either, right?

[maviportakal]

While you would not say 'She answers to the questions', you could say 'She responds to the questions'. Unlike answer, respond takes the preposition in this case.

[Viaggiatore]

"She answers to the questions" is poor English.

[padrosocrate]

Thank you so much, Viaggiatore.

[H.G.Stolk27]

She answers the questions! And she reports to you live from New York city!

[almazen.14]

How should be , in English, then: "lei risponde le domande."?

[Viaggiatore]

I don't think that would be grammatical.

[almazen.14]

Grazie!!!

[ChuckVC]

In English, in would be "She answers the questions."

[bernard.selin]

Why "to the questions" is not correct - alle domande MEANS to THE questions rather than to questions.....

[Muyil]

I thought 'alle' was 'to'. So is it 'she answers TO questions? Where is the 'the' in this sentence? Is it just implied?

[Jeffrey855877]

"alle" = "a le" = "to the"

[Jeffrey855877]

How about "she responds to the demands"?
I can give three or four contextual translations where that is appropriate.

[FlyingWeagle]

Perché non è 'di' ma 'alle'?

[lidercfeny]

it is not clear by the robot speak if it's alle or le

[cristina333271]

It is wrong