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How does one translate .... He eats ....and .... He is eating .... into Italian?
you could say 'lui mangia' or simply 'mangia'. because the verbs in Italian change depending on who is performing the action, by saying 'mangia' it is clear that you are talking about he/she/it.
present simple and present progressive in English is essentially the same thing in Italian. so 'he eats' and 'he is eating' are both 'Lui mangia' /'mangia'.
do animals in Italian have 2 words for each animal for the two genders {lion, lioness} or are the words presented in this chapter the only name for the animal? and if so, how do I indicate that the animal I'm talking about is a male female?
You would say "Le scimmie mangiano le banane"
"La scimmia mangia banane" (but it should be in context... out of the blue it wouldn't have a general meaning)
If a Italian could help me I would like to know if "macaco" isn't a correct answer.
Not an Italian speaker here but due to the strong ties it bears with French, which I am a native speaker of, I guess "Macaco" is a specific type of monkey and not a generic term pretty much like "Macaque" in French.
I got You used the definite "The" here, instead of the indefinite "One". but here is say it's 'A monkey'. Can anyone tell me which is correct and how to tell the difference?
on google translate this says the monkey eats the banana but i got this wrong -_-
The microphone option hasn't been working for me today, rather frustratingly. It worked perfectly yesterday. I do everything as told, click the microphone symbol and say what's asked; perfectly correctly, besides. Alas, the correction tells me that I was wrong without even bothering to let me finish. Have tried keeping the icon down throughout, clicking it before, clicking it after, and, of course, my microphone is perfectly authorised for use by Duolingo... ??
