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- "Non hanno mobili."
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You’re correct in your understanding but Duo is asking you to translate the sentence a different way than you answered. Non hanno = they don’t have. That’s the important part.
But it's not an exercise on verbs it's reinforcing objects. It's perfectly correct english to say 'have no'
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Mobility=the pieces in the house, office, etc that can be moved=furniture=mobili (plural). Hope that helps!
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In English, "They have no furniture" and "They do not have any furniture" mean exactly the same thing. One is a more economical way of phrasing, that is all. Both should be accepted.
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it's rather irritating to have to write 'they do not have furniture' instead of 'they have no furniture' just to get the right response from Duolingo!
Furniture is always singular in English, as far as I know (I am Italian). If you want to specify "un mobile" you have to say "a piece of furniture", like you say "a piece of information", if I recall correctly.
"Furniture" is uncountable, like "air" and "milk". You need to specify another noun if you want to count them:
- Two pieces of furniture
- Three glasses of milk
- Four canisters of air
First time i see this word. I choose mobile from hints and put it wrong. There's no context to realize they are talking about furniture, is it? Or how could I realized what they were talking about?
The English and Italian words are false friends. You would make this connection the first time you encountered this word anywhere, unless you were looking up "furniture" in an English to Italian dictionary.
Well, it's similar to furniture in both German (Möbel) and Dutch (meubels). Möbel is similarly spelled to Obelix and Obelix can lift furniture with one finger... ... Probably doesn't help you at all ;)
You got the idea of the sentence correct. My guess for you getting it wrong is that it wasn’t translated to what’s written in Italian. You’ll need to say the negative before the verb —> don’t have. ...”they don’t have furniture” instead of “they have no furniture”. See the difference?
There is no difference at all. Requesting Italian word order in English is ... ridiculous. Sorry I find no better wording.
duolingo staff: please add 'they haven't got any furniture' to the list of correct answers!
Any intuitions to help remember mobili? I get the relation to mobiles and mobility but why furniture?
mobili = the furniture, immobili = the building/real estate that they are inside.
how do I know if the sentence is about "I" or about "They" if duolingo does not put the "LORO"
Because in Italian each verb form has the subject 'included': hanno = loro hanno, ho = io ho. One exception is sono, which can be either io sono or loro sono, but you can usually find out from the context.
When i put in They don't own furniture, i am told that it is wrong... I though hanno also means own?
someone from the uk would probably say 'they haven't got any furniture' which is what I put. duolingo disagreed and told me that was wrong! I'm afraid no native speaker would say 'they do not have furniture'. 'they do not have any furniture' is ok, I suppose, but that sounds kind of north american to me. the main point is that 'any' is pretty much essential here... just saying! 'they have no furniture' is correct although I doubt you'd hear that in a conversion between two modern native english speakers...
"They have NO furniture" IS ALSO CORRECT! IT MEANS EXACLY THE SAME!! BOTH TRANSLATIONS AR CORRECT!
They have no furniture They have no furniture They have no furniture They don't have any furniture.....Does Duolingo ever read any of these comments?
Perché non hanno mobili? Ognuno ha degli mobili. Almeno un letto nella camera da letto.
They don't have furniture - wrong. They do not have furniture - right. I can't see the difference, please explain ....
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BenoitDuff: I can hear mobidy as well, even after listening again and again. Guessed they meant mobili.
In Italian, H at the beginning of a word is mute. That's why all Italian people are so bad at pronouncing it in other languages. :D
then again, non anno mobili would translate to no moving year, which is just gibberish...