"Tu sei una cittadina comune come noi."
Translation:You are a common citizen like us.
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My answer "an average citizen" was accepted, however indicated with a typo. "a average ..." was suggested instead...Could someone provide a native English explanetion for why the article is "a" and not "an" in this case?
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It isn't. Your answer "...an average citizen" is the correct one. Duolingo's "...a average citizen" is completely wrong. It's probably just a typo. Please report it if you get the chance. :)
Commoner is more closely translated to "popolano", or in this case "popolana": member of the common people, of low standing in society. Common citizen here would be intended as a citizen like any other, with no special privileges; although "cittadina" is also a small town, but of course that meaning would be improbable here.
In the U.S. we would more likely say "an ordinary citizen," if this is what is meant.
I translated the sentence as, "you are an ordinary small town like us." Coming from a small, quaint town, it made more sense in English to me than "you are a common/ordinary citizen like us." oh well.....
...but in this sentence the subject is "tu" which is the familiar singular for "you," so probably addressed to one person.
