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- "She drinks the water."
"She drinks the water."
Translation:Lei beve l'acqua.
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If it's "lei or lui" (she lr.he) it will be "beve." "tu" (you) = bevi "io" (me/i) = bevo
(io) bevo - I drink
(tu) bevi - you drink (SINGULAR YOU)
(lui/lei) beve - he/she drinks
(noi) beviamo - we drink
(voi) bevete - you all drink (PLURAL YOU)
(loro) bevono - they drink
Thank you. Had a hard how to use gender pronouns with the verbs. This helps a lot.
Both the masculine (lui) and feminine (lei) have the same conjugations. Same with the Lei (formal, you) pronoun
"Beva" is imperative and you can use it in a formal phrases (with a doctor for example),,, "beve" is the simple present (presente semplice in italiano).
Cause the verb with ERE. (bevere-to drink) if we take ere, it will be "bev", now, we will make there ending:
Io - (verb ere without ere) o
Tu - (verb ere without ere) i
Lui/lei - (verb ere without ere) e
Noi - (verb ere without ere) iamo
Voi - (verb ere without ere) ete
Loro - (verb ere without ere) ono
But with verbs essere (to be) and avere(to have), it's an exception. But that what i sad, it's only for verb ERE, we have ERE, ARE, IRE. Learn about this in google.
It's because of Italian verb conjugation. I don't have any links (sorry!) so juat search that up on Google if you're interested :)
i think it the verb ending is only a after LEI when the previous letter is a vowel like in "lei mangia" so with consonants it is e like "lei beve"
What is the difference between Lei beve acqua (I saw a similar sentence here) and Lei beve l'acqua? What about Lei beve un'acqua (does that even make any sense?) or Lei beve un vino/il vino/vino? Can we also say Lei beve dell'acqua? Is that the same?
"Lei beve acqua" and "Lei beve l'acqua" and "Lei beve dell'acqua" are almost the same. I think for English it's the same... she drinks water, she drinks the water, she drinks some water. "Lei beve un'acqua" wouldn't make much sense, we would rather say "Lei beve una bottiglia d'acqua" "Lei beve un bicchiere d'acqua."
Same for vino. "Lei beve vino" anyway could sound like she usually drinks wine, while the other options are speaking of the moment.
If you were to say un'acqua it would mean 'a water' but if you were to say l'acqua it means 'the water.' And dell'acqua is completely different.
L' is used in front of most nouns. I think thats what youre asking,its very hard to learn another language but, we all struggle :) la and le are not for nouns
Since I'm dyslexic this makes it extra hard but is there any way that next time a person puts a b instead of a d ekby autocorrected it's clearly still beve
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No. The determinate article for feminine nouns starting with a vowel (in their singular form) is l'.
la and l' are as different as 'a' and 'an': you wouldn't say 'an car'.
'il' is the masculine "the". if acqua ended in 'o'. then it would be il. But it ends in 'a' which is feminine.
Also saying "il l'acqua" is kind of like trying to say "The the water" in english, isn't it?
Domina, 'mano" is feminine, despite ending in the general masculine ending '-o'. That's why it takes 'la'.
That"s like saying "she drinks the the water', only worse as 'il acqua' is grammatically incorrect. You only need 'l'acqua'.
Yes it is, but it's found in the imperative and subjunctive moods - treats in store!
To my experience the male voice doesnt say the :"L'" sound in L'acqua ? I spelled it wrong and got a wrong pronounciation as correction ?:) Anybody with the same experience ?
She/He = "lei" (feminine) and "lui" (masculine). Drinks = Third person: "beve". Second-person: "bevi". First-person: "bevo". The = l'. Acqua = water.
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Lei(She) beve(drinks) la(the) acqua(water)
You just have to compress “la acqua” into “l’acqua” as “acqua”starts with “a”
Why would it be incorrect to say Lei beve LA acqua since LA also means the?
yes because la acqua shortens to l'acqua. It means the same but it's not grammatically correct. In English it's like saying a apple.
Because you cannot put two vowels after each other "la acqua"... So instead of it we put "l'" .. Just like in French! Also in English you cannot say "a orange".. Two vowels.. So we put "an" instead of it.. Hope this helps :))
Shorten 'the' (La) to l' when the word after it starts with a vowel. l'(a)cqua
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That would be bere. It's conjugated as follows:
io bevo
tu bevi
lui/lei beve
noi beviamo
voi bevete
essi/esse/loro bevono
Is there any rule when to use acqua and when l'acqua (applies for every other example)
I believe l'acqua is THE water while acqua is just water, seeing as l' is abbreviated la meaning the.
It's all about the context of how its used in the sentence.. also read the comments above if you have trouble understanding :)
Anyone knows what like feminine,masculine,etc stuff like that?i need help,literally i cant get the point
How am I supposed to pronounce an apostrophe? The issue I had with this sentence was the '.
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I get accused of not putting a line under it, i'[m sorry my computer can't do that.am i good enough for you DUOlingo i thought we we were doi n this together me and that terrible immitation of SIRI!!!!
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An underlined word shows were the error is.
You're not supposed to add it: you're supposed to look at it and see what you did wrong.
I found a way to help you remember bebe, instead of beba or bebo. Think of beverages. Its beve. Just replace V with B
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In Italian it's never 'bebe' or 'bebo'. It's always with a 'v'.
(io) bevo
(tu) bevi
(lui/lei) beve
(noi) beviamo
(voi) bevete
(essi/esse/loro) bevono
