"They are not your pants."
Translation:Non sono i tuoi pantaloni.
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Maybe it's "they" when not being used as a personal pronoun?
Would "They are women" be "loro sono donne" while They are pants" translates to "essi sono pantaloni"?
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Essi is so outdated in Italian that they haven't had it in Italian text book since the 1960's. Loro is correct.
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Blech. It didn't accept my "Loro non sono i tuoi pantaloni." I reported it, but wasn't sure. I know we can omit the pronoun, but I like to keep it in just so I personally practice associating any given verb to its corresponding pronoun. I think that must be the only reason it's wrong- they're expecting me/us to omit the pronoun "loro."
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I'm no expert, but based on the example, essi is used as a subject when loro is used for an object: direct or indirect.
Please someone experienced help.
I used loro, it should be accepted because it is in the translation when you peek.
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Loro -> they Essi -> These/those
The ENGLISH is wrong here. Or you guys really say "they are my dresses"?
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Yes, you could say 'they are my dresses', especially if 'these/those (ones)' has already come up in the context, e.g. 'These ones here? Oh, they're my dresses.'
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Yes. There is nothing wrong with the English, although we would normally contract it to "They're my dresses".
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Yes, they are my dresses or those are my dresses. Depends on what you are trying to say but both are used in English.
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I would think it should be. That should be reported. If they're not your individual pants, but y'all's/you'unz's pants (southern US and Pittsburgh, respectively) then vostri should make grammatical sense.
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I don't get why "loro" is in correct, unless it refers solely to people/animals.
i think essi is the same as loro, but for objects only. but please check it
What is essi ? And what about loro ?
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The word "They" is incorrectly used according to the italian translation. The sentence is "They are not your pants"; for instance, the correct translation is "Loro non sono i suoi pantaloni". If you want the italian translation to be "Essi", you must write "Those are not your pants" instead.
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non sono i vostri pantaloni - is this correct? It was marked incorrect.
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As far as I know that should be accepted, since in English "your" can be singular or plural. Maybe a native speaker can confirm this?
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It seems the author of this question found it in some textbook which uses the essi pronoun. There are textbooks which use diferent personal pronouns of the 3 rd person of singular and plural: egli=lui; ella=lei; essi=loro. I found these differences in textbooks in my country but in italian textbooks or dictionaries as well. What is the correct usage of these different personal pronouns could tell us a native Italian speaker only. I think it could depends on region - egli, ella, essi = french influence (?). In any case I suppose my "Loro non sono i tuoi pantaloni." Is correct or an Italian will understand it at least.
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I used "loro non sono i tuoi pantaloni" and it told me my answer is not correct.
For this particular question there are TWO correct answers: (tu) Non sono i tuoi pantaloni. (Lei-formal) Non sono i suoi pantaloni. In general, you could also use: (voi) Non sono i vostri pantaloni.
In todays Italian this/these would be questo/questi. Essi is rarely used now and mostly by the elderly in certain regions.
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I think it is tuoi instead of vostri because vostri is more than one person, so they designed the sentence logically- usually people don't co-own pants. Does the non always have to come first before sono here?
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Pants might refer to more than one pair of pants. It might be a group of pants owned by a group of people, each one owning just a pair of pants.
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This is the main problem I have learning correct Italian sentence structure; I wrote: loro sono non i tuoi pantaloni. I translate it word for word; it just doesn't make sense to do otherwise.
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It’s funny that this post started 5 years ago and goes up until 2 months ago and most people say essi is outdated and that is what I read over and over in articles and books about the Italian language. My answer comes up with essi and not non sono as shown above.
Non ci sono i tuoi pantaloni = There are not your pants. (Ci = there) "there" can't replace "they", even in English.
