"I am the girl."
Translation:Io sono la ragazza.
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So that we can more easily distinguish between capital i (I) and lowercase L (l)
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Ah. On my devices, the lowercase l always has a little bend at the bottom end. I guess I can understand.
The font you use is appalling, to distinguish between io & lo is virtually impossible visually. There are many good fonts to use that do not have this problem.
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The fact that it's at the start of the sentence should tell you that it's a capital "i".
I've never seen Duo start a sentence with a lower-case letter.
whats the difference when I translate the above given English sentence as "Io sono la ragazza" and "Io sono il ragazza" ??
Kindly help whoever can...
the latter is incorrect as 'il' is a masculine form of 'la' and therefore fails to match 'ragazza' (girl).
Why is it when I answer I am a girl with lo sono la ragazza it keeps saying I am incorrect?
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You can't use il because ragazza is feminine because it ends with an a. Il ragazzo, la ragazza.
That should be "Io sono la ragazza(correct because both the article and the noun are both feminine) The other sentence should be "Io sono il ragazzo"(masculine singular)
La is feminine and il is masculine, the words have genders so usually the ones with a or e at the end is feminine and the one with i or o at the end is masculine
Please help I have done lo starting with lower case and cap. Either way I keep getting it wrong
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" Lo "si usa solo in alcuni casi e precisamente quando la parola inizia con: 1) "gn" es. lo gnomo, lo gnocco; 2) " ps " es. lo psicologo; 3) " pn" es. lo pneumatico ; 4) " st " es. lo stipendio, lo studente; 5) " sp " es. lo sport ; 6) " z " es. lo zucchero, lo zaino ; 7) "y " es. lo yogurt
Ragazza is a girl so you must use the feminine form of "the". Il is only for boys and all masculine nouns. Unless it begins with a vowel, then it's always l'.
The difference : Io sono IL ragazza (IL is for "ragazzo") and Io sono LA ragazza (LA is for "ragazza)
NOTE: There's no difference between "io" and "Io"... They are the exact same word, it's just hard to distinguish between a lowercase "L" and an uppercase "i" with the font DuoLingo uses. "Io" is just "io" written with a capital "i".
Is there a difference between 'io sono' and 'sono' ? sono means 'am' but the usage is tricky
You can decide to use the article or not, but imagine someone asking a group of people where they are coming from. You my answer "Io sono italiano" (I am italian) because it's your answer and it's specific and others can be different.
When you use 'io' it means you want to emphasize that it's 'me'. So normally you shouldn't use it, only if you want to emphasize it. Sono la ragazza = i am THE GIRL Io sono la ragazza = I (emphasize) am the girl (nobody else)
You probably made the same mistake as the others : first word is 'io=Io' not 'lo=Lo'
I submitted many complaints because of the confusion with what looks like"Lo...lo" but it's actually "io...Io"....
I wrote it all correctly and it tells me I'm wrong! I can not move on with my learning please help improve this situation/problem thank you
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I think you are talking about io with a capital I and not lo. "Lo" is a male article (like "the" in English), while "io" (no difference with the one with the capital, it was nust at the beginning of a sentence) means "I"
Does customer service read these posts. I keep getting i am the and i translate correctly but the program says it's incorrect but the correct version is the same as what i wrote. Does anyone know how to get out of the loop without closing out of the lesson?
Why bimba ? You have learned that you have to type ragazza , an not bimba its weird
Would it be correct to say "Sono la ragazza, io" if I want to emphasize that he subject is "io"?
Thank you for the clarification between lo and io...i misread the letter because of the capitalization
I am typing lo sono la ragazza but the program insists that it is incorrect.
I type the correct answer to this and one other sentence and it says it's wrong!
I amswered lo sono la ragazza and it was wrong and they said the correct answer was lo sono la ragazza. I am very confused.
why does it keep telling me this is wrong but gives me the same answer as correct?
It continues to tell me that I am wrong when I put in the same answer. The question is to translate "I am the girl". I put "lo sono la ragazza". It says it is wrong but the right answer is what i continue to put. What is happening?
It doesnt matter if its lower or upper case it still doesnt accept thw answer that is correct.
My answer is exactly the same as your answer..right down to the capitals and full stops..so annoying..and it wont allow me to move onto next section
I have the right answer 10 times but it says wrong answer?? Please explain
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You typed "lo sono"
io sono is the correct answer.
io = I
Sono = (I) am
Lo = The
You have used a lowercase L (l) instead of a capital i (I) in your spelling.
its asking for I am the girl. I write lo sono la ragazza and it keeps saying I am incorrect?
I am answering correctly and it continues to say that my answer is incorrect......how can I get past this??
I love it when theres a capital letter at the start of the sentance so you know which to start off with.
Why does it keep telling me I got stuff wrong? Ill translate a setence, it will say I got it wrong and I look and dont see anything wrong. Sometimes all it has been is I started the sentence with an uppercase letter and they started it with a lowercase letter. Does that matter?
I see my mistake. The letter is an "i" in the word I am. I apologize for not realizing it. The letter looked like a small L to me.
Thank you for your help.
My answer is correct but it keeps saying incorrect which means i cant progress? Please advise?
tried io sono la regazza and it finally worked, it looks like an L but is actually an I
Surely I shouldn't lose a heart just because I can't spell very well. I got the write words, just didn't spells ragazza correctly! Tried to be phonetic, doesn't quite work the same!
OK. So if I spell it wrong it is still wrong? I wrote "Io sono al raggaza.".
so is it masculine and feminine like Spanish and Portuguese like e.g o for ragazzo and a for ragazza? or is it something else?
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Lots of comments about character case here, but can someone explain to me when articles are definite in Italian? "La" in this sentence is clearly a definite article. However, I often see articles that I would expect to be definite being treated as indefinite. "i castelli" Is one such case, where I would expect it to mean "the castles", but the correct answer ends up being "castles".
'io' isn't necessary, unless you want to emphasize it. It's not clear here that it has to be emphasized, so I chose not to, but they noted it as being false!
Could you all please learn the difference between 'io=Io' meaning 'I' and 'lo=Lo' meaning 'the'. It's not 'the am the girl' It's 'I am the girl' So it's not 'Lo sono...' but 'io sono... '
Why is "sono la ragazza" incorrect? Io should be unnecessary as the pronoun is implied by sono. Is there a special case where io is necessary?
I hate my IPad it "correct's" my "mistakes" that's why I failed the question
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Omettere "io" in italiano è corretto, pertanto anche la frase " Sono la ragazza" è corretta. Duolingo sbaglia in quanto " io" è sottinteso.
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" La " è un articolo determinativo ossia che determina un personaggio, un ani- male o un oggetto che noi conosciamo bene (es . la mamma , il cane, la gatta ) . " Una " è invece un articolo indeterminativo ossia che non specifica alcunchè, resta sul vago, sul generico,si tratta di pesone, animali o oggetti che noi non conosciamo (es. una mamma , un gatto, una cagna).
Anyone else being follwed by semi naked Sonia with a phone number covering her volva? La regazza with no clothes
Io sono is actually quite easy to remember. When you say, "Io sono la raggazza", you get the hint that it is indeed saying I am a girl.
In find it kinda easy but maybe cuz i have an italian best friend who teaches me lol
What's wrong with my answer!? Coz the answer I make and the correction are the same.
A lot of people seem to be writing lo instead of Io. Could it be that? If so, the sentence doesn't make sense and DOU starts a sentence with a capital. If you wrote your answer I could answer your question.
Why u say its a kind of free learning while you demand the usage of data ,problem"
Honestly if youre off by a letter it shouldnt count you wrong but it should tell you you messed up a letter and then make you do it again later
I'm writing corect answer, you are writing the same and now its incorrect again.
I was writing but it dispersed and I got email again and again of you will die tonight
Even i write the same sentence and it still said I'm wrong now I'm very confused about the answer....
I wrote ragazza with two Gs I know it's stupid but still I had everything else right
doesn't sono imply io-of course it also implies loro but la ragazza IS singular
