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- "My snake eats your cakes."
"My snake eats your cakes."
Translation:Il mio serpente mangia le tue torte.
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I also hate it when cake eats snakes. Or did you mean "I hate cake-eating snakes!"? :P
Posso solo scusarmi per il comportamento intollerabile del mio serpente.
Im sorry about the bunch of men who wrote in your sugar... how many of us got THAT??
I did! I don't know what they are doing, but they have no business in the sugar.
"La mia serpe" is the translation duolingo gave me, not "Il mio serpente". I am confused.
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Davvero? Non ho mai sentito la parola serpe. E ho dei paralenti italiani incluso la mia moglie.
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I got this wrong, putting sue instead of tue for 'your', but it called it correct. In the answer it said that another correct response would have been tue, but mine wasn't correct at all! I don't want to cheat.
Sue is actually correct when using the formal you, Lei, which uses a third person conjugation. So it wasn't cheating!
I also put "sue", learning Italian after Brazilian Portuguese, and when I discovered that, I started to suspect that DL had accepted my answer because there should be some formal "you" in Italian similar to "você"... You cleared my doubts!
Hmmm.....is this one of those sentences with a hidden meaning, or am I just getting paranoid after that last...uh... "patata" sentence they taught us?
Serpente can mean of course what you think, but in this context no normal people would misunderstand. XD
Why do I have to say: "Il mio serpente..." Why not just "Mio serpente..." Is it because the snake is the subject?
In italian you always need that article before any possession pronoum. Il mio...la sua... le tue...
Well, not, of course, with the singular form of words referring to relatives: Mio fratello/i miei fratelli.
I am confused as to why there are two suggested answers and the version for your is incorrect in either. Whether is it "la serpe" or "il serpente" the following part, either "le sua torte" or "le tua torte" is not interchangeable as endings to the beginnings. I do not see why the snake's gender should affect the ownership of the cakes?
Shoul be "le sue torte" or "le tue torte" as cakes = torte is plural. Sua or tua torta would be singular.
"Snake...cake...cake...snake...hmmm let me put that in a sentence" -Duolingo contributor
I said 'la mia serpente' but i was wrong, and it was 'La mia serpe' instead. Both Serpe and Serpente were choices. What is this?
Serpe and serpente both mean snake, but serpente is male and serpe is female. So it's La mia serpe but Il mio serpente.
Can someone explain to me why it's le sue and not tuoi? Shoulden't tuoi be correct since we're talking about more than one cake or is it becuase the snake is singular?
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The grammar has nothing to do with the snake. Tuoi would only be use for a plural masculine possession such as books....I tuoi libri. for any possessive pronoun then in this feminine plural case: le mie torte, le tue torte, le sue torte, le nostre torte, le loro torte
"Serpente" must be a masculine word. I put "la mia serpente," but was corrected with "la mia serpe."
So snake will always be male singular never female singular correct? Just a bit confused here
Besides the bizarre phrase, I wrote "tuei" because it's "cakeS" and corrected me to "tue", isn't that wrong?
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I wrote le sue torte...i know that le tue is the tu possesive but i thought that le sue was the formal you / your?
Weird, if i would have said that to a waiter in Torino Great city by the way. They would have send me to an asylum
Ha sense of humor is among us. The italian translation for " is it hot in here or is it you". Is it hot inhere or is is you"? Somebody will probably slap me
Cause "i tuoi'' is masculine plural and "torte" is feminine plural.You can type"le tue torte or "le vostre torte"
Always remember,that you should use masculine singular with masculine plurals and feminine singular with feminine plurals only.Hope you understood my point!
Thanks :)
How useful is this sentence, my snakes never gonna be hungry in Italy... brilliant Duolingo
Why does Duolingo mark
"La mia serpente mangia le tue torte"
as wrong?
What if is a female snake or the ower of the snake is female?
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The owner of the snake is entirely irrelevant. Apparently, per the discussion above, if you want to use "La mia" you could use serpe, a female word for snake.
I answered Il tuoi dolci, and the answer was 'le tue torte'- can't the word dolci also be used to mean cakes in Italian?
Why does "il mio" not agree with the subjects in the ending of the possession? "Serpente" ends in 'e' as well as "torte" but only the "le tue" possession is in agreement with the subject.
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Be careful of falling into the trap that all nouns ending in "e" are feminine plural. In this case serpente is a masculine singular, the plural would be i serpenti. It also is not reflective of the gender of the actual snake, and further has nothing to do with the gender of the cake, or the owner of the cake. There are many examples and are best learned as you come across them. A few other odd examples: il braccio but le braccia plural (arms), il dentista, but i dentisti.
In Latin, serpens/serpentis is a third-declension masculine noun, a nominalization of the participle serpens, from serpere 'creep'. The accusative form is serpentem, which yields Italian il serpente, cf. French le serpent...Latin lac 'milk' is also third declension but neuter: lac/lactis. In Italian and French, it becomes masculine (il latte, le lait), but in Spanish it's la leche.
I love when it says that fish drink water! You learn something new everyday lol.
You can say "mio serpente" instead of "il mio serpente". You can skip the subject
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Look these lessons have not been in troduced.....and unclear if usi g deductive reasoning
The cakes could belong to more than one person, so "le tue torte" should be accepted?
