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- "My dog eats chicken."
"My dog eats chicken."
Translation:Il mio cane mangia pollo.
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Basically, il mie does not exist in Italian. It is Il mio pollo, La mia cena, I miei Cavalli (do not confuse the capital letter i with the English equivelant) and Le mie cane. These are the four main ways to indicate and describe that an object or thing belongs to you in Italian.
Sidenote Sorry for reacting to this but I feel (as a language teacher myself) that Ellieb09's explanation was a little bit to technical and know from both science and experience that using metalanguage to explain language does not help people unless they have a profound knowledge of metalanguage first.
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why "polli" is considered wrong here? There is no "a" before "chicken" and so it can be considered a plural noun not a singular one.
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"mio" is used for masculin nouns only while "mia" is used for feminine nouns like a car. It is very simple.