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- "She is young and I am old."
"She is young and I am old."
Translation:Lei è giovane ed io sono vecchio.
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In italian, nouns and adjectives that end with 'e' fit both genders. So, 'giovane' is used for both male and female.
1048
It's interesting that this exercise showed me two alternate correct Italian sentences, both using both pronouns, but one said ed io sono vecchio (as above), and one said e io sono anziana (not ed).
1048
Thanks for the response! Are you saying that ed is required with io, and e io is absolutely incorrect?
I looked it up to be certain.
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/80487
It's a little more complicated than "a" vs "an" in English.
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In Italian, you can use "piccolo" and "grande" as synonyms for "giovane" and "vecchio". It's colloquial and a bit childish though. The most common sentence that you can hear this is "cosa vuoi fare da grande?", which is used to ask a child what he wants to do as a grownup.
1309
I put Lei è giovane e sono vecchio and was wrong. Aug.2017 I was under the impession that either io sono or sono were correct but Italians will just use sono because it is easier. In Spanish you could say yo soy but soy is sufficient.
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Thank you. If I come across it again, I will flag this. However, whether I get it right or wrong in Duolingo does not concern me as much as learning correctly.