"When do you drink milk?"
Translation:Quando bevi latte?
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Oh my, it sounds awkward, but I cannot explain why! :D
If I would like to use you here, it would be to stress it, and I would write it at the end...
"Quando bevi latte tu?"
or (but the meaning would change "Da quando tu bevi latte?" (Since when do you drink milk, meaning "When did you start? I never noticed it)
In general, in Italian the subject can be always implied, we use it especially when we want to state that a thing is made exactly by that person, some kind of surprise or other feelings.
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Thanks for the explanation, Marziotta. I'm sure I'll get the same thing wrong a hundred times more but know I'll be able to guess why it's wrong.
I was marked wrong for not using "il latte". Is the article necessary?
Yes it is, without the article it sounds weird and it isn't gramatically correct since the article is almost always needed.
It sounds really really weird but it is NOT grammatically incorrect (ovviamente una frase costruita così io non la direi mai, forse in rarissimi casi, credo che Duolingo sia una app americana, il corso di italiano non è stato sviluppato bene nel senso che sembra non colga regole e sfumature della lingua, sto facendo anche il corso di portoghese e anche lì gli stessi madrelingua portoghesi dicono quanto sto ora scrivendo)
Depends on the subject. The verb will conjugate according to the subject.
Bevi is informal and beve is polite and to be used with people with whom we are not familiar.
Because it means "When do WE drink milk?" and 'beviamo' is a 1st person plural verb. The verb used in the given answer (bevi/bevete) is a 2nd person singular (or plural) verb.
Is there a grammatical reason why the use of the appropriate pronoun is incorrect? It may be omitted in other Romance languages, because the verb ending implies the person, but it would not be wrong to use it.
I wrote "Quando bevi del latte?", which was accepted, but does anyone know if that would sound unnatural in conversation?
I think they except both answers as I typed in beve and It was correct
Voi is "You Plural". It is to be used when addressing multiple people at once.
Why not " Quando fara tu beve latte?"
If "fara" means "do" why is it wrong when i use it?
Farà is the future form of 'fare' (do) and it's also the 3rd singular person (he she it) when 'tu' is you (but only if one, 'voi' is you for more than one person). The question in the future is 'Quando berrai il latte?'
I am getting confused with remembering what quando means and (which, when, where etc.) Any special way of remembering them all?
Quando kind of sounds like "when do", or at least looks a little similar. It's not perfect, but whatever helps it stick, you know?
