"We are girls."
Translation:Siamo ragazze.
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why isn't "noi" used before "siamo ragazzi/e" but it is for donne and uomini?
That's entirely coincidental. What the sentences are trying to show you is that it is optional to express the subject pronoun in Italian. "Noi siamo ragazze" and "Siamo ragazze" are both perfectly okay!
Ok, but then the system should accept both!!
How are we supposed to know what the computer wants!
It's because it wants you to accept both answers, "Mark ALL the correct answers." Took me a while to figure it out.
It's because only one of the answers contains the "are" word. "Noi ragazze" would mean "We girls". It wants the sentence for "We are girls", hence "Siamo ragazze" is the only correct answer.
For the "Translate" exercise I answered 'siamo ragazze' and I was marked wrong. I know it's okay to drop the pronoun and have done before, so why not this time?
You can report it in the report field, if you wrote the sentence with "Noi" and it wasn't accepted.
"Noi siamo ragazze" = "Siamo ragazze", in Italian the subject can be implied.
Sometimes the topic in this case Noi can be not used people will understand by the verb you use in this case Siamo which is the verb that goes with "We" so speakes will understand that "Siamo ragazze/i" is the same as "Noi siamo ragazze/i"
By the way, does anyone else not remember learning conjugation from Basics 1? Siamo, or mostly any other conjugation of to be, wasn't in any of the lessons that I went through. And they weren't introduced as new words, either. Or are we just supposed to learn from our mistakes?
Whats sono? I thought it was am or i am, now its are? How do i know whats what?
Noi siamo = we are. Loro sono = they are.
miers97's comment below has the full conjugation, as does the Tips and Notes for this lesson, if you can access it.
I get confused between 'ragazze' and 'ragazzi'. I thought that they were the same, but (apparently) not.
Ragazze is feminine, ragazzi is masculine or a mixed group. Sometimes English doesn't give any hint of the genre of the people, that's why things like "kids" can be translated both as "ragazzi" or "ragazze". Even if I would rather use "bambini" or "bambine".
Why are male voices speaking for women and vice-versa ? It is not cognitively very sound...
Im confused on the difference between Raggaze, Raggazo and Raggazi ;3; Im only doing this to help me with my Italian class
I keep getting the same sentence over and over, although the answer is correct
Duolingo says my basics in Italian are broken, even though I am Italian !!!!! Ah ah
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You can find the conjugation of "essere" in the Tips of Basics 2 (Android app)., at start of this chapter. I once read a link to website with verbs in the comments: https://www.italian-verbs.com/ The verb "essere"(to be):
(io) sono - I am; (tu) sei - you are (singular); (lui/lei) é - he/she is; (noi) siamo - we are; (voi siete - you are (plural); (loro) sono - they are.
what is the diffrence in pronounciation between ragazze and ragazzi, girls and boys
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No, you cannot. Italian verbs are conjugated to a greater extent than English.
"We are" is noi siamo; "I am" is io sono.
I needed help with this question, so I hovered over "are" in the English phrase. The hint said ((noi) stiamo). I wrote stiamo, with the "t", and it was considered wrong??
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I'm afraid you're remembering wrong. It must have been siamo without a "t". If there really was a "t" then that is a serious flaw of the hint system. If you do come across it again, please use the flag to report it.
Ya i marked noi siamo ragazze as well and wasnt accepted but ok now i know its to mark 2 but then we r not used to mark 2 options in a marking test. Just saying...
you can use the pronoun or not and its saying the same thing so why is one way correct and the other not !!!
As my teacher friend pointed out, the instruction says, "Check ALL correct translations" of which there are two, "Noi siamo ragazze" and "siamo ragazze", so if you only checked one of the two you lost a heart. Buona fortuna, ciao, Antonio
The reason the other one is not accepted is because it says Noi Ragazze. It left out siamo
No. Ragazza has the female grammatical gender. Most plural forms of female words are built by changing -a to -e.
Other examples:
donna, donne
macchina, macchine
:)
"noi" means "we" or "us". In Italian you can imply the subject, but you are not forced to! :)
I don't get that. Why it's not right to use "noi" if the english sentence uses 'we"?
If this was another option then the program should have given it prior to this point.cant give an answer I havent been taught.
Noi is the expressed pronoun, but it is also included in the verb (ending) siamo so you don't necessarily need to use the noi unless you are trying to emphasize the "we".
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- Read the Tips and Notes of the chapter (only available on the website) before starting the first lesson.
- Complete all the lessons of that chapter before starting the next chapter.
- Extra exercises with Tiny Cards (app).
- Don't want to go too fast, not too many lessons in one day.
- Listen to Italian music. Have fun and enjoy.
I'm typing the correct translation and it's marking it wrong the correction though it's exactly identical like
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Not sure if it's Duolingo being case-sensitive, but it wouldn't accept my "Siamo raggaze" and said that "siamo raggaze" was the correct answer.
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A persistent typo: raggaze" is wrong because its "ragazze" with 1 g and 2 z. Duo probably accepts the translation "Siamo ragazze" and "Noi siamo ragazze"
HA. I was here scratching my head about to report an error that my answer "siamo raggaze" was marked incorrectly. I just couldn't see the error of my ways until now. Thanks! Sometimes DL gives me grace with typos. Here they did not.
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"Siamo" and "è" (note the accent) are different forms of the verb "essere"(to be):
(io) sono - I am; (tu) sei - you are (singular); (lui/lei) é - he/she is; (noi) siamo - we are; (voi siete - you are (plural); (loro) sono - they are.
Tu sei ok???? - k
Sí... - y
Ok grazie-k
Pr.ego-y
Io ssimo Kristen -k
Tu sei Kristen!!!!!- y
Sí!!!!- k
Tu mangi pisce - y
Sí- k
Tu sei un Vigiarean? - k
No- y
