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- "Lei ha i pantaloni rossi."
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This sentence is amusing for English (UK) speakers because here 'pants' means underpants ;p
If you play it quickly, she CLEARLY says "Lei miei pantaloni e rossi". I shouldn't be docked for writing down what I hear.
You should definitely report it if that was the case, although I didn't have the woman's voice in mine, so it might have been fixed. But Duo won't accept a word jumble as correct, although if you can't make it out correctly (whether the error is yours or Duo's) you may have no option but to put it.
Whenever it's "ha i" it sounds like she pronounces "hai" without the pause (no "ah ee" but "aye"). Is this correct in Italian to contract them orally or does it just sound blended together to my untrained ears?
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Your ears are correct. When speaking - any language, not just Italian - we blend words together so that some sounds disappear or change.
I though "pantaloni" could be translated as either "slacks" or "pants." I wrote "slacks" & it was marked as an error. Make up your mind how you want that word translated.
i use trousers, always worked until now. Apparently a pair of trousers isn't part of the translations yet.
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How common is "slacks"? I had never heard of it until now. If other users agree that it's quite common, I'll add it to the options.
Eeeh , it's a common enough word, but I'm not sure as to how fitting it is in this context. As far as I'm aware, I've only heard 'slacks' in reference to a specific type of pants/trousers, not as the general term...
Where I live (US midwest) slacks is the more common term for women's pants/trousers, since the word pants is often used as a synonym for panties.
I think slacks was more often referring to woman's pants, but I think that's mostly because slacks tend to be more informal and traditionally the whole concept of pants of any kind was informal for a woman. Trousers in the US I have mostly heard only for the category name. I think my Grandfather used to refer to what he was wearing as trousers, but not mostly. Both of them seem on the decline in the US, although trousers was never common here.
I am 72 years old and I've heard pants called slacks and back into the 50s and 60s it was a common word for pants
grammatically a sentence would never say le miei right it would always be I miei wouldnt it ??
Since "pantaloni" is masculine and plural, yes, you use "i miei." If it were feminine plural, you would use "le mie."
I think pantaloni still means a word in the plural. Indeed It has a plural structure
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Earlier in the lesson I was asked to translate "Lui ha pantaloni rossi". I notice the he/she difference in these sentences but why does this one have an "i" before pantaloni?
i means the so one was "he has red pants" while this one means "she has THE red pants"
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But the translation to this sentence is "she has red pants". Did you mean to say that the other sentence is "he has the red pants"? I'm sorry, I shouldn't nitpick. I understand your explanation and I am thankful.
WE HAVE RED TROUSERS YOU CAN SEE THEM FOR MILES. RED TROUSERS WE'RE THE LAST ONES IN STYLE.
Pants in England means knickers. Trousers is the word we use, and it should be allowed (as it is in other places in Duo)
Please amend the translation to include British English “trousers” as correct!
