"Il loro orso ha fame."
Translation:Their bear is hungry.
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Maybe I could feed him those insects that were on my plate in the last question :)
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...but they're good because they preserve the element of surprise that is such a part of speaking a language!
I think it is only whales that consistently dine on subjects that number in their tens of thousands ...
All these sentences about bears must be preparation for an upcoming Russian language addition.
il mio, il tuo il suo, il nostro, il vostro il loro (singular mas) I miei. I tuoi, I suoi, I nostri, I vostri, I loro (plural mas) la mia, la tua, la sua, la nostra, la vostra, la loro (sing, fem) le mie, le tue, le sue, le nostre, le vostre, le loro (plural fem)
Copied and pasted from something I found:
"lo/gli" only happens before the following:
vowels
z-
gn-
ps-
x-
The "impure s" is s + any other consonant, like
sp-
sq-
st-
etc.
I was thinking the same thing! Certainly one of the most threatening. Everyone's talking about how useless this sentence is, but if it ever does come up in conversation I'm sure you'll be glad to know it...
Probably the least likely used sentence ever.... If I go to Italy and use this sentence I will pay you $100.00
Well, if "la tue anatra e la mia cena," maybe I could share with the bear. Oh wait, my cook ate most everything in my house. Even mi torte!
The important part of this sentence is to teach that the article will accompany loro
The idiom in English is "to be hungry," but the idiom in Italian is "to have hunger."
For the same reason that in English we say "a snowy owl" when without the adjective it should be "an owl." "L'" is akin to "an" in this case.
Hmm - earlier I learned how to say "You are drinking my cat's milk" in Swedish. I still haven't learned how to order a cup of coffee in either language! I hope things improve soon....
I must confess that I only came here because I knew there would be some amazing comments. I was correct. LOL
Hahaha...maybe they can feed him the monkey and the penguin from the last lesson.....
It's interesting that English translation to il fame is hunger, but there is also a similar word connected with being hungry, FAMINE, which is "a lack of food during a long period of time in a region".
Yes, the words share an etymology. But the words followed different paths in the different languages and are no longer perfectly identical in meaning. This happens all the time.
Because in Italian they say "to have hunger" and not "to be hungry".
I RARELY hear words like: ha, ho, è, gli, il, i, ect. Is it a problem w duolingo or me?
That depends, it might be. But more likely it is because in Italian these words come between or before larger words and in essence they are passed over. If you listen more closely or slow it down you might hear them but in terms of pronunciation, they are rarely emphasized as much as other words.
Can someone confirm that the dictation of the audio sounds confusing (sounds like "il loro - orso ha fame")
Why is that confusing?
Listen again at the top of the page. You can also listen to native speakers at Forvo.com
That was not the problem. Copy and paste your entire answer and also verify Duolingo's instructions to you as sometimes we are to translate to English and other times put it in Italian.
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Curious. I wrote "Their bear is hungry.", got the "wrong" sound, and now Duo is showing me "Nice! Meaning: Their bear is hungry.", along with the "wrong" icon, on a red backdrop.
As this was a listening exercise, I now realize that I should probably have typed the Italian text, but the UI is somewhat confusing here.
Yes, the listen and write what you hear exercise does expect it in Italian.
what about the " il loro orso ho fame". orso is masculine noun, what is the need to use "ha" instead of "ho" in that phrase
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"ho" vs. "ha" is not related to masculine vs. feminine at all. "ho" is the verb form for the 1st person singular ("I have"), whereas "ha" is the verb form for the 3rd person singular ("he/she/it has").
Who's = who is
That does not work since "bears" is a plural noun.
Did you mean "Whose bears?" which asks who the bears belong to?
Yes, the expression in Italian would literally be "has hunger", but we don't use that in English and in Italian they don't use "is hungry." You have to translate to the correct expression in each language and not a word for word literal but wrong translation. Careful for typos, "beer" as a completely different word would be marked wrong for "bear".
This isn't Russian...that would have been easier as they don't use definite or indefinite articles at all. https://dictionary.reverso.net/english-russian/their
Isn't Italian fun? https://dictionary.reverso.net/english-italian/their
