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- "La donna legge al ragazzo."
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"The woman reads the boy." - sounds bad. "The woman reads to the boy." - sounds better. But hey: I'm german. ;)
I can't read boys - I tried it with my son, I swear! :D
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I'm going to take a guess and say that it is probably a conjunction of 'to' and 'the' like in Spanish 'a' means 'to' and 'el' is 'the' they put the two together and drop the 'e' to get 'al' but then again I'm only just learning Spanish and just started Italian today so who knows...
For people having trouble with the prepositions, there's this convenient chart of how they are formed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/language_notes/al.html
Because then it would mean she reads so that the boy won't have to read (he's not particularly listening). Instead, "to the boy" means she is reading a story for him, and he HAS to be listening.
Reporting problems is the best chance to get them fixed. Use the "report problem" below the sentence.
In english the third person (he, she, it) have all the verbs with "s" in the end. Reads, plays, loves, etc etc... In this case the person is "the woman" (she), so she reads.
Reads, of course. Because "la donna" is "the woman." (third person). Duolingo doesn't teach you past tense yet :) So don't focus much on past tense for now.
Really? Do you mean "ragazzi" instead of "ragazzo"? If so, you can actually hear the difference if you listen carefully. I agree though. I had to repeat the automated voice so I could hear it clearly.
Ragazze = (what I heard) the "e" sounds "eh" Ragazzi = (what I heard) the "i" sounds "ee" like "bee." Don't worry. The articles will help you identify the word. Correct me if I'm wrong... (la) ragazza = the girl (le) ragazzi = the girls (il) ragazzo = the boy (i) ragazzi = the boys.
Will "al" ever change depending on if the noun that follows is masculine or feminine?
I'm confused on the read v. Reads because without the s it becomes part tense. How do you clarify.
The woman read to the boy. Vs. The woman reads to the boy. Past vs progressive.
Past vs simple present. Progressive would be "is reading."
And Duolingo doesn't teach the past tense til much later, so if it's early in the lessons for you, it's safe to assume it's all simple present.
Past tense would be much harder so you have to learn the present tense first. I think when you use past tense, you need to put "have" before the verb. And the verb has to change into the past tense form. I don't know much about Italian. But I assume that some rules are somehow related to French, Spanish, etc...
I am having difficulty following the double 'g' pronunciation. Sometimes it sounds like she is saying legge (Leg-gay) and sometimes it sounds like she is saying legge (Lezhay). Which is it? Are two 'g's always pronounced the same? Thank you!
The pronunciation of G and C are based on the next character. Any time a g or c is followed by an e or i, it is the hard G (pronounced like J or legge would be Lejay) or hard C (pronounced like Ch or ciao is pronounced chiow). Otherwise, they are soft like the g in gun or the c in cat.
Very helpful! I was wondering if the rule was inconsistent, but now I see it's just dependent.
So do I have this right for this verb?
io leggo loro leggono both have a soft 'g' - {lay-go} and {lay-go-no}
whereas
tu leggi lui/lei legge noi leggiamo voi leggete all have a hard 'g' - {lay-jee} {lay-jay} {lay-jee-ah-mo} {lay-jay-tay}.
I think your eplanatoion is not correct. What you call hard is soft an the other way round.
"Al" is a contract of "a il" and it becomes allo where you'd use "lo" (all' before vowel, ai/agli plural); female is alla, plural alle.
I have a very difficult tine distinguishing ragazzo (boys) and ragazzo (kids)...I just dont get it!
Simple. It's the same word. Ragazzo means one boy . Ragazzi means boys or children.
Ohh gush In the last lesson to the was translated as. "Ai", remember???
"The" takes many forms in Italian, depending on whether the noun it's attached to is masculine or feminine, singular or plural, and what sound the next word begins with.
This is how prepositions combine with definite articles:
with the speaker ,whenever i speak into it pronouncing the sentence correctly it says it is wrong. Normally it is bad on duolingo
If you're having trouble with the speech recognition program, you can turn off voice lessons in your settings.
Can someone help me how to pronounce "legge" is it like le je or lej ?
Just keep going through the quiz. Very often it will repeat the question you got wrong.
I've seen that it repeats the other types of questions, but not the ones where you actually have to speak. Does it repeat the speaking questions further on into levels?
I don't know. I turned that option off years ago. I got tired of dealing with the faulty voice recognition.
I didnt even realize that you could do that. I guess I need to explore Duolingo a little more. Thank you for taking the time to help me out
It's in your account settings. On the website, mouse over your avatar and when the pop-up menu drops, click "Settings". You can toggle "Microphone" and "Speaker".
In the app, (at least the Android version) tap the icon at the bottom that's the woman's face, then tap the gear at the top. Scroll down to "Accessibility" and you can toggle "Speaking exercises" and "Listening exercises".
a is "to" and il is "the". But Italians don't say "a il", they say "al".
