"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...
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.
Unfortunately, no longer accepting "il tuo", but only "il vostro" as of 8Sept18
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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.
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Kuddos for sharing good information that we will need to know later. However, in this lesson voi is teaching plural you. Formal isn't covered until much later in duo.
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
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"
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
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" .
Yes, I can imagine How useful this Sentence will be. “Il vostro Leone mangia la Mia bistecca! "
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.
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".
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.
Leone ends in e so shouldn't it be le vostre instead of il vostro? I am confused
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. :)
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...
Also car and cart means similar but don't go too far with the latter...
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.
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..
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".
I was wondering the same, and since your comment is the only one questioning this I looked into it. I think we got thrown off by the tips. "È il mio gatto." and "Il gato è mio.", got it in my head that if it is at the end it will be without the article. But it is actually the difference between it being a dependent or independent possessive pronoun. È il mio gatto. = It's my cat. (my = dependent possessive pronoun), Il gatto è mio. = The cat is mine. (mine = independent possessive pronoun) so Your lion eats my steak. = Il tuo/vostro leone mangia la mia bistecca., since "my" is a dependent possessive pronoun the article is not omitted.
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?
Why? I thought all genders refer to the subject of the sentence. Why different now?
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
Duo did not accept: "Il tuo" leone mangia la mia bistecca. "Your" could either be singular "il tuo" or plural "il vostro".
Because leone is il, so vostr- su- tu- are all finished with -o. If it was the tiger, la tigre, then it would be vostra, tua or sua.
Because the lion eating is singular, and doesn't get affected by the fact that it's owners are plural. If it was "you are eating your lion" then you could use "mangiate", i.e. "voi mangiate il vostro leone"
Vostr- is for plural (Duo uses "you all" in English texts to emphasize the difference) and formal, whereas tu- is for when you are talking to one person. The -o at the end is because it's il leone, so for la farfalla it would be vostra and tua respectively.
First I wanted to check weather the word leone could be a leona for females so it could be wrong anyway. But the English language can really screw you off here. I know one random person wouldn't own a lion on his own and it would be more logical for a zoo to own one to which you would refer to with your as in plural. I'd like to know if I could change the language from English to my native language.
OK! So after discussing this with my Italian friend, I found out that we are missing the fact that THE LION is IL LEONE, hence IL VOSTRO LEONE. feeling so dumb rn
"il vostro" or "il tuo" both can work. Tuo (like Tu) is more informal and Vostro (like Voi) is a more formal way of speaking.
Leone is a masculine word, hence it is il vostro leone. If it was tiger, a feminine word, it would be la vostra tigre.
Why is an o instead of an e used in vostro when the lion eats my steak. Everything else ends in an e in the sentence.
Leone ends in e but is not a feminine word. Since it is il leone, the sentence becomes il vostro/tuo leone. It's not foolish to heed the letters that words end in, but you have to remember the exceptions to that rule.