"Where do you live?"
Translation:Dove abiti?
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I'm not sure if the word "abiti" has been introduced before this question... at least I don't remember seen it
I've just come into this straight from clothes, if memory serves 'abiti' means 'suit'. Is this a dual meaning?
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I have the same question. I'm a little unclear on the use of the word.
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'abiti' means 'suits', but it sounds same as 2nd person sg. as verb 'abitare' which means to live somewhere, or to inhabit, duolingo most probably mixed two of them and put it here.
I was in Italy in decembar . Abito means dress,and you can see that in every shop window .
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"Abitare" -- to live in, to reside
Present tense conjugation of "abitare";
- Io -- abito
- Tu -- abiti
- Lui/Lei -- abita
- Noi -- abitiamo
- Voi -- abitate
- Loro -- abitano
I hope this helps.
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Thanks, but then, how "dove abita" can be a translation of "where do you live"?
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Third person (lui/lei abita) is also used for formal 2nd person singular ie you would say dove abita? to mean where do you live? if you were speaking to one person who you don't know well enough to use the tu form (dove abiti?).
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Why is "Dove TU abiti" wrong? In any other sentence it's allow to either mantain the pronoun or to elude it.
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In most cases people discouraged using it because it sounded awkward. Now it sounds awkward to me too. Also, isn't it a bit redundant?
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It's weird, because in portuguese we also constantly elude the pronoun. But when asking where a person lives ("onde você mora?"), it would sound more akward without the pronoun ("onde mora?"), it's less common.
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Because in Italian a question word at the start changes the word order - if you want to include tu (for emphasis) you say Dove abiti tu?
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I don't know how I'm supposed to know this one at this stage! The hints were no help at all.
The verb "abitare" means to live or to inhabit. "Abiti" also means "suits" which we did in fact learn in the clothing section. You have to figure this stuff out from the context altho the context in this exercise was somewhat lacking. I also almost checked "Dove vai" as that means "where are you from?" As someone in another forum discussion said: I keep a dictionary open all the time.
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Does dove vai really mean where are you from? Vai is a conjugation of andare which means to go so Dove Vai means , where are you going. To say where are you from would be "Di dove sei" , atleast im pretty sure.
There's another problem. It assumes the familiar form. If you use the polite form, the answer is marked as wrong.
Dove abiti? could mean Where suits? But that's not a complete sentence. You would have to say Dove sono abiti? or Dove sono gli abiti? to ask Where are the suits?
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English uses live both for talking being alive and for I inhabit this building. Italian distinguishes between these two meanings. abitare = live in the sense of inhabit. vivere = live in the sense of alive. Where do you live is best translated with abitare because it's about location - the inhabit meaning rather than the alive meaning.
I used vivi and it was considered also correct. Even though most Italian is the Tuscan dialect that we learn, I would imagine that it may be a use of another dialect or word, I could be totally wrong but I think there is something close a dialect or 2 for every state in Italy.
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Actually, it accepts "Dove vivi?" as well now. :) I've tried it since I couldn't find 2nd person of "vivere" anywhere.
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Vivere is live in the sense of being alive. Abitare is live in the sense of I live in this house (ie a bit like the English verb inhabit)
"Dove abita" is the first I've seen of the formal you on DuoLingo so far. How frequently is it used in day-to-day Italian? I only recall using it with professionals (professor, doctor) and elderly people when I studied abroad.
I guess abiti sounded like habitation in English but yep I thought it was suit in plural!
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abiti is the 2nd person familar conjugation for the verb to live (abitare). You can say tu abiti or just abiti the i is the ending and is used only for the 2nd person singular making tu understood.
I got the multiple choice answers: 1. Dove rimanete? 2. Dove abita? 3. Dove stivali?
I thought, "shouldn't it be abiti?" Since 1 and 3 were clearly wrong, I chose 2, and it was marked correct. When I got here, the right answer is listed at "Dove abiti?" So, I think DL has a problem on this lesson. When I tried to report it, I only have one option, which doesn't apply--saying the English is incorrect. Oh well...?
I assumed that if one was asking where somebody lived, one might not know that person very well and would therefore use the formal version of the verb.
The question gives me three options: Dove abiti, Dove vive and another. When i select dove abiti it tells me that it is incorrect and that dove vive is correct, then the opposite when I select dove vive
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I used the verb vivare but it marked me as incorrect because I used the plural of you!!!! It said the answer was vivi, not abiti!
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Someone needs to review this, previous to this question, DL gave "Dove vivono" as the answer for Where do you live, then this questions accepted "Dove vive", and of course when you go to the discussion forum, we get "Dove abitate" very confusing.
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It just had me define "abito" as "live" and then said i was wrong for using it in "where do you live?"
