"La tigre è la tua."

Translation: The tiger is yours.

[WossyBoy]

The sentence I have always wanted to hear!

[Josiah890890]

I wonder if it is stuffed or alive

[Khoanguyen94]

" la cucina è tua".
So can we say la tigre è tua, instead of "la tua"?

[Moonwabbit]

Has anyone got an answer for this?
In the same lesson we see "il cane e tuo", not "il cane e IL tuo".
Why is it "la tigre e LA tua"?
The feeling I get from it (and this is just a guess) is that "la tigre e la tua" is more like "this tiger is the one that is yours" when there are other tigers around too. And "la tigre e tua" means there's only one tiger involved, and it's yours.
Does that make sense? Can someone clarify?
[please forgive missing accent on "e", which my keyboard cannot make]

[wogboy101]

Yes you can. Both are correct.
When saying "mine, yours, theirs" you can drop the article.

[ReneeRaffini]

If the tigre is feminine, why can't it translate to "the tigress"? I wrote "The tigress is yours", and lost a heart.

[Lelouch9]

Feminine nouns are not necessery ( female ), and I guess they deemed it wrong because -tiger-is commonly used to decribe both female and male tigers.

[SingingDove]

Confused as to why sometimes you put the article adjective (la/il) in front of the possessive and sometimes you don't. Why can't you say "La tigre e tua?"

[pprommel]

Could we say "È la tua tigre" to save using another "la" in a sentence?

[LobsangC]

Well, the reason they did this IMHO was that they wanted to show cause for teaching agreement with exceptional nouns.

[KatieOakle]

Well, I sure don't want the tiger

[duchess1660]

Ho una tigre? Molto bene

[GiovaniCorleone]

Why can't it be "It is your tiger"?

[marziotta]

That would better translate as "Questa è la tua tigre" I think.

[GiovaniCorleone]

But that uses a demonstrative that is missing in my sentence. The translation would be "This is your tiger". I believe that the english sentences "The tiger is yours" and "It is your tiger" are equivalent.

[marziotta]

It could translate into "It is your tiger" could directly translate into "Essa è la tua tigre", but "Essa" is seldom used.

I think that keeping the same structure of the other language, when possible, is the best solution, but I don't know what's the Duo policy on regard. :)

[RICARDOZOLEZZI]

ARE "LA" AND "TUA" FEMENIN OR NOT?

[DanzaItalia]

they are feminine.

[Heppsi]

It should accept "La tigre è tua" because "la" is already shown in context and 'tua' doesn't form ownership with any noun in this sentence. Could someone comment on this?

[daivadag]

"la tigre" is femenin? why it is ending with "e".

[ibryesn]

Some words ending in -e are masculine and some are feminine in others. It just depends on the case. Which is why it's important to memorize the article (il, la, un, or una)

[IfyouseeKay___]

This I didn't really get either. Is there a simple way to memorize this?!

[srdjansimic]

I agree. It should be La tigre è tua. and there was an explanation that when the possessive stands alone we should not use article. Which is correct?

[jovictor1066]

At last we know how that darn short story ended!

[ibryesn]

What is the purpose of putting 'la' in front of 'tua'?

[mopsustherobin]

Oh no...I really wanted the leopard...!

[nick.herit]

The tiger is your one?

[lordofrivendell]

Yay! I has a tiger. :p

[gandemica]

Probably it could have sounded, " the tiger, its yours"?

[Jerard12]

No thank you..

[FabienTali0]

hello men

[KraftyKitKat]

When would we use this?

[max630333]

The quality of the spoken utterance is poor!

[RogerDis]

"It's your tiger" is the same thing, but it wasn't allowed!

[mgeeah]

ok

[tclyc26]

It's it just me or has Duolingo suddenly launched a war on sentence contraction?! I typed: "The tiger's yours" and that was rejected. Seriously Duo?!

[Luca511084]

I am never going to financially recover from this