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- "Your lion eats my steak."
"Your lion eats my steak."
Translation:Il vostro leone mangia la mia bistecca.
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This is worrying. I didn't know suburban people owned lions and stole other people's steaks...
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Indeed. More specifically a butterfly, carrying a knife in the boot but using (presumably) a bottle when the husband must die. We're in a strange world... ;)
I translated this sentence as "Il tuo leone mangia la mia bistecca" and it said that is correct as well. So I think it will accept either the singular or the plural form of "you" when not specified in the English sentence, as long as the gender and amount are translated in correct form.
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I have found that if you put a correct answer which is rejected (like this) it is often accepted later on in the lesson - although I think someone pointed out that they were wanting the 'Il vostro' in this particular lesson.
I'm guessing it's looking to emphasize that voi is the plural of tu as well as the formal.
Well it would be tue leone but also they wanna teach you the plural version of you i guess
it's because the tua is feminine and leone is masculine. it would have to be tuo leone to be correct
I don't care if the lion is masculine or feminine, if it wants the steak l' m not going to argue
Why can't it be "Il suo leone mangia la mia bistecca"? Wouldn't that be your (singular) lion eats my steak, also?
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I think it should be accepted. "Your lion" can be translated as "Il tuo leone" but also as "Il suo leone" if I want to speak politely to someone using the "Lei" instead of "tu" .
you can never be too sure these days, with people forcing their carnivorous pets to be vegetarian
I hate these ones that do not distiguish if the you/your is plural or not. it seriously would only take a simple (s) or something. makes it frustrating to answer
La traducción al español es "tu leon se come mi carne", por lo tanto en italiano es "il leone mangia la mia bistecca". Si fuese plural debería ser: "your lionS eat my steak".
what is the difference between il Vostro and le tue? I get them interchanged all the time but don't know when to use which one.
How in the world could we possibly know that this lion belonged to more than one person? Am I missing a clue?
Both the singular and plural were accepted by Duolingo. When the sentence is in context it will be apparent which form to use.
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vostro is for the plural you as in "all of you." It would be il tuo if the lion belonged to a singular "you"
Because we almost always use articles before possessive adjectives and pronouns. When we speak about relatives we make some exceptions, but you have probably already noticed it in the course. :)
Yes, I can imagine How useful this Sentence will be. “Il vostro Leone mangia la Mia bistecca! "
I thought 'Il tuo leone magia la mia carne.' is the same meaning above because we don't know 'your' in English means singular or plular. Also 'bestecca' and 'carne' mean similar...
So...il Suo leone and il vostre leone mean the same thing? Is there a difference in usage?
I think this is my favorite sentence yet. Just the imagery of this conversation even being a thing.
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I think the latter would mean your own living flesh and not the meat you took from an animal to eat. But I am not really sure, I am not native Italian speaker. Oh, and an important point: carne is not equal bistecca. AFAIK Duo won't accept carne either.
Can i say "mangia mia bistecca" or does it have to be "mangia la mia bistecca" in this sentence? Can't seem to find rationale for when you can drop the definite article..
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AFAIK "la mia bistecca" is the only correct solution. You can drop the definite article in very few cases, mainly
- if you speak about very close relatives
- and not in plural.
"Mio fratello", "mio babbo", "mia nonna" are okay, but "i miei fratelli", "i mei babbi" ;) "le mie nonne".
Vostri libri but vostre botiglie
Vuestros libros but vuestras botellas in Spanish.
Would I say "Il mia" if I'm a man saying this? Or is "la mia" feminine for another reason?
Yes. The gender agrees with the object, not the speaker, in this case.
Is leone being masculine an exception? I thought "e" at the end was for feminine words
LOTS of masculine words end with e. Feminine plurals also end with e. As a native speaker of Spanish, this was confusing for a while for me.
I'm not a native speaker, but what I've caught is that "o" is (almost) exclusively masculine, "a" is (almost) exclusively feminine, and "e" at the end can mean both.
Either le tue or le vostre should be accepted until we are able to read Duo's mind to determine if "your" is singular or plural
Leone ends in e so shouldn't it be le vostre instead of il vostro? I am confused
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Tell me: Is the following sentence grammatical? Non lamentarti. Sii felice che sia la tua bistecca e non tu che il leone sta mangiando.
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about this simple sentence, apparently because of the gender of leone...In Latin, leo (probably a borrowed word from a non-European language) is a third declension noun: leo/leonis/leoni/leonem/leone/leo (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative) in the singular and leones/leonum/leonibus/leones/leonibus/leones in the plural. In Italian, this winds up as leone (leonem minus m) and leoni, the plural form following the pattern of second declension nouns. I wouldn't blame a beginning student of Italian for complaining "But I don't know Latin! So what?" All I would say is that what doesn't seem to make sense does indeed make sense. Furthermore, one doesn't start off with a noun with Vowel X on the end and then decide that it ought to be masculine or feminine.
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Duo did not accept: "Il tuo" leone mangia la mia bistecca. "Your" could either be singular "il tuo" or plural "il vostro".
