"Il mio cane mangia pollo."
Translation:My dog eats chicken.
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Is the "Il" at the beginning necessary? Couldn't it just be "Mio cane mangia pollo?"
The article is required for possessives, except for family members in the singular (mia madre, mio padre, mio figlio, mia nonna, ...) but not the plural (i miei genitori, le mie figlie, ...).
Unfortunately nope. Il mio/la mia means my (singular), in Italian il and la are necessary, read the tips of the lesson. I mioi/le miei are the (plural) my (my dogs etc.)
Of course it is! It's part of Italian! With sentences like these, it's always gonna be like that! You have to understand that a language doesn't have to make COMPLETE sense in English to make sense in that language!
This is so true. My dog has killed and eaten a number of my chickens and had no remorse.
Is there a reason "I eat chicken" is mangio il pollo but "my dog eats chicken" is il mio cane mangia pollo without the definite "il" before pollo?
Doesn't "il pollo" mean "the chicken" ? So "Mangio il pollo" would mean "I eat the chicken" ?
Becuase the dog could be eating any number of chicken, so it is indefinite.
Flashcards for the possessive adjectives. I also included the 2 that aren't mentioned here yet. http://www.cram.com/flashcards/memorize/possessive-adjectives-6686426
funny, just as i was doing this one, I noticed my dog stealing a piece of chicken off the table. basta!
Should this not be correct as well: My dog eats "a" chicken? Pollo is supposed be singular isn't it? Maybe it's not clear from the italian if it is "a" or "the". Somebody got an idea?
Why is it now wrong to say 'il pollo' in all other sentences the noun had to have an article..
Possessive adjectives and pronouns decline in gender and number, miei is masculine plural
I just put What I was supossed to put My dog eats chicken. And it's supposedly Wrong
I just realised it makes sense thinking of the masculine/feminine stuff if you say "Il cane mio"
i thought chicken bones were bad for dogs. then again, i'm too 'chicken' to try and find out. lol
Chicken bones are definitely not a good idea for your furry friend, they splinter easily and can scrap the digestive tract. My dog is on a raw meat diet and we scrap the chicken meat off the bones. You can, however, give your pup beef bones as they add a lot of required nutrients to their overall diet :)
Keep in mind that when cooked chicken bones are far more dangerous, as they crystalize during cooking.
Does it bother anyone that the Italian speaker speaks too fast and usually many syllables are VERY hard to pick up or understand? Like this FREE app a lot but I feel my comments are aporopriate.
