"Siete proprio fortunati."

Translation: You are really lucky.

[queenzatana]

How do I know when "proprio" means 'just', 'truly', or 'quite'? It's very confusing..

[Viaggiatore]

It means all those things and more. http://www.wordreference.com/iten/proprio Are you losing hearts for choosing the wrong one?

[queenzatana]

Yeah, it keeps happening =T
For this particular question, I put, "You are just lucky," but in hindsight, I suppose that was kind of a dumb answer, haha.

[t_s_c]

@queen, are you saying this cannot be "you are just lucky"? I looked at viaggatore's link, but still don't get the difference.

[jjjmindless]

"you are just lucky" still doesn't work

[ab987]

I put 'you really are lucky' and it was wrong. How would you say my sentence in Italian?

[HaroldWonh]

It's a perfect translation into English - and probably more natural than the one DL insist on.

[Bev78710]

'You are all really lucky' not accepted when in previous exercises the formal/plural 'you' of the verb essere has been translated by DL as 'you all'. You just can't win!!

[KatrinaKett]

siete davvero fortunati - another option, no?

[K2mission]

I'd like to know as well. Is there a difference between using either davvero or proprio?

[JoshuaKnic]

I think that would be more like "you (all) are truly lucky/fortunate," but that still seems like a perfectly acceptable translation to me.

[IOK-1]

I translated "Siete proprio fortunati" as "You really are lucky". This was rejected even though I think this really is acceptable English. My Italian/English dictionary tells me that "proprio" only means "really" when used as an adverb, not as an adjective. Is my dictionary wrong? Reported 2019-01-06

[Midtoad]

In this situation could I use davvero?

[mangoHero1]

Yes, you could

[SteveKillick]

What is wrong with you are all really lucky when siete is being used and lucky is in the plural?

[Mico_di_Ostia]

fortunati = fortunate (among other synonyms)

[CjRM2u]

Can "proprio" be replaced with 'veramente'?

[mangoHero1]

Yep, that's basically what proprio means in this case.

[MaryBethCoates]

Common DL, it's natural to say "Youreally are lucky". - please accept

[MichaelASm314026]

when do you use "siete" rather than "sei" for "you are"?

[JoshuaKnic]

Sei - you (singular) are

Siete - you (plural) are

[MichaelASm314026]

Grazie! I should have realized that "fortunati" implies plural.

[m_cos]

Can't I translate this as "you're so fortunate?" Or is that too colloquial?

[DavideSp60]

Anche voi siete va bene!

[EricHarris778606]

And "you are all really fortunate" doesn't work

[Ingeborg483858]

Why only" lucky" not" happy"?

[ernestohor11]

You are so lucky

[chris928950]

My long dead grandmother would say 'you're proper lucky'. I now see that maybe that North English dialect is actually based on Latin too.