Is the preposition repeated when there are two prepositional complements in Italian?
Example
- L'inglese è utile nella diplomazia e il turismo.
- L'inglese è utile nella diplomazia e nel turismo.
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Sign up to join this communityIs the preposition repeated when there are two prepositional complements in Italian?
Example
You have to repeat the preposition if it is articulated as in your exemple:
The repetition is optional if the preposition is simple:
Omitting the repetition is more common in this case (exemple), but repeating it, you put a stronger separation between the elements of the list, sometime giving a different nuance of meaning or helping avoiding ambiguities
Technically speaking, I think that if you don't repeat the preposition it counts as a single complement (not sure though, please correct me if I'm wrong), but I guess it was not the goal of the question.