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May 12, 2014 - 11:06 AM
Ciao @Melissa84, grazie for pointing that out to us. In fact, both versions are correct here. It depends on whether we want to say that:
1) You are from a place - meaning you were born there.
In this case we would use the: Di and with the article "gli" it would become:
Degli Stati Uniti
2) You are coming from a place - which doesn't necessarily mean you were born there.
Here we would use: Da which together with the article "gli" becomes:
Dagli Stati Uniti
So it's:
To be from (+ place) = Essere di + country/city
To come from (+ place) = Venire da + country/city
Since we didn't specify which one we wanted here and you have no context to help you, we will update the program to allow both options from now on. Again, grazie for bringing this to our attention!
1) You are from a place - meaning you were born there.
In this case we would use the: Di and with the article "gli" it would become:
Degli Stati Uniti
2) You are coming from a place - which doesn't necessarily mean you were born there.
Here we would use: Da which together with the article "gli" becomes:
Dagli Stati Uniti
So it's:
To be from (+ place) = Essere di + country/city
To come from (+ place) = Venire da + country/city
Since we didn't specify which one we wanted here and you have no context to help you, we will update the program to allow both options from now on. Again, grazie for bringing this to our attention!
May 12, 2014 - 03:47 PM
Hugely helpful explanation. Thanks FluenzLab!