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- "Le gatte mangiano pane."
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Thank you. I still think it's a source of confusion for the beginners and should be removed.
Me neither, my cat never eats bread, if i gave him some bread he looks at it and then to me and thinks woman: what do i have to do with that! lol
If it were a mix of male/female cats or only male cats, i gatti. If it is only female, le gatte.
That s the case with by far most indo-european languages (so for instance also the germanic and slavic languages). The female forms are usually the exception and get an extra grammatical marker.
Here's where they could have said, "The cats are drinking milk," instead of horses drinking milk and cats eating bread.
I'm redoing the lessons at this point. I've noticed that they often throw in outlandish phrases - I think it's a pointed teaching tool - it keeps us on our toes, makes us laugh or raise our eyebrows and then by by laughing or being incredulous we read the comments and get more engaged.
I believe they all drink water and humans and are the only ones drinking milk after entering adulthood
Indeed. Duo is rather strict to get the article. Well, do as I say not as I do.
'Il pane' means 'the bread'
'Pane' only means 'bread'
So, in other words, 'il' means 'the' in
Italian. Like il gatto means the cat.
It's to keep you from annoying in Italian like you're doing in English :)
Seriously, please use a spellchecker. It's built-in.
Ha ha.. you got me :) This darn auto correct on my phone does more harm than good. Out of all the sentences.. had to screw this one up!
So, if it were one cat would it be "La gatto"? Also does it change if the cat is male?
What would we do without students/Italian speakers' explanations on "discussion"? I appreciate Duo's creating this discussion that replaces their own work.
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I swear he says "le gatte mangiano IL pane", so I wrote it that way (because that's what I heard). It's wrong :/
On another question, someone stated that suolongo made animals easy things they shouldn't. So true.
How can you tell that the sentence is for female cats only? Google says I gatti
Female only generally ends with 'e' and male only generally ends with 'i' in Italian. I believe if there is a mix of genders you keep the male ending - I learned a bit of Spanish once and that was the principle there.
