"Io sono il padre di suo figlio."
Translation:I am the father of her son.
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actually the movie line is "NO! I AM your father!" so... "No! Io sono tuo padre!"
I was in Venice in '77 and had the chance to see the original movie in Italian, but I didn't. Wish I had!!!
You all only think it's weird because you translated it as "his son," it gets way less weird if you use "her son"
I seem to be in the minority here as I immediately thought "her son," and was confused as to why everyone thought it was so strange!
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well, i thought it could mean that the one who speaks is the 'real' father and the other is the step-father or adoptive father
I went with "his son" just for the weirdness, though i knew "her son" would be the more likely statement. Could be adoption, could be cheating, but I prefer to think of it as a guy talking about his husband's kid.
So how do you know it's her? What part of this sentence indicates that it is her son? Or is that just implied because of traditional family roles?
It could also be implied by the context. For example, the father enters a conversation between his wife, their daughter and a friend of his wife and clarifies that he's "the father of her daughter". (Yes, every normal person would say "I am her husband")
That may be true but in the lesson we are give there is no context provided so i agree with others who commented on the use of suo for her.
If you wanted to specify whose son he is, you'd say, "Io sono il padre del figlio di lei" or "Io sono il padre del figlio di lui." The pronouns don't do the job, like they do in English, so you'd have to spell it out.
or it means 'I am the father of her son." which makes perfect sense. as long as in this context 'suo' agrees with the word 'figlio' and doesn't have to be sua.
the speaker is speaking to himself in the mirror.. an old riddle. I am the father of his son
or the speaker is claiming to be the father of someone else's son, which is what I thought it meant.
If the sentence was "io sono l'amico di suo figlio", how do we know if it refers to 'his' or 'her' son?
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But can't figlio also mean child as well as son. I got marked wrong for putting child.
If the person in the picture is not Darth Vader but a girl, the sentence just doesn't work. Duolingo, stop messing around with sex and gender, please. That's misleading in a language class.
Duolingo follows the Crusca recommendation that courtesy third person pronouns and possessives must be capitalized ("la terza persona di cortesia, singolare e plurale, nell'uso scritto richiede l'iniziale maiuscola"), so you'll always find Lei and Suo when it refers to "you" and "your"/"yours". In real life or in speech, only context can tell (with profit for comedians).
Wow, I love the sentences you get in Italian! It makes French seem so repressed :-)
Despite being arguably impossible it is grammatically correct, as in 'She is his brother' and 'She is her brother'. Both the same in Italian!!
"Suo" Is Also A Formal "Your(s)", So "I Am The Father Of Your Son" Should Be Accepted, Normally I Wouldn't Have A Problem With This, But It Was Accepted With "We Are Your Children" Before.
This is probably old news, but suo figlio could be your son, her son, or his son. Finito.
Not exactly
”your son” = “tuo figlio”
But if you want to use a formal/polite option use Suo figlio with a capital S
Why is suo figlio translated to her son? I thought figlia is for daughter and figlio for son.
Say what you want. Billie Jean is not my lover She's just a girl who claims that I am the one But the kid is not my son She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son. So. I'm not paying child support until I get the DNA paternity test results. I'll see you in court.
Grammatically this would be correct
But if we are talking of a biological son , not a stepson then it would be awkward to say
I put the answer as : I am her son's father. It was not accepted... why?
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Sorry if I need a small review on Italian possessive determiners, but could we insert an 'il' between 'di' and 'suo' in this sentence if we wanted to?
