Word
Chi ha l'autodisciplina, chi alterna i progetti per la flessibilità.
Meaning
Some have self-discipline, some alternate projects for flexibility.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Chi ha l'autodisciplina, chi alterna i progetti per la flessibilità.
avere
to have
il progetto
the project
per
for / in order to / because of
chi
whoever / the people who (the one who, those who)
Questions & Answers about Chi ha l'autodisciplina, chi alterna i progetti per la flessibilità.
Why does the sentence use chi twice, and why does it translate to "some" instead of "who"?
This is the distributive correlative chi ... chi ..., which translates to "some ... some ..." or "one person ... another ...". It is used to contrast different behaviors or subgroups within a larger group. Even though chi usually means "who", in this specific structure it acts as an indefinite pronoun.
Why are the verbs ha and alterna in the singular if "some" is plural in English?
Why do we need the articles l' in l'autodisciplina and la in la flessibilità, when the English translation drops them?
Italian requires definite articles before abstract nouns used in a general sense. In English, we usually drop the article for abstract concepts like self-discipline and flexibility, but omitting it here in Italian would sound grammatically incorrect.
Could I use da instead of per before la flessibilità?