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Can "La sua pasta è nel piatto" be translated into "Your pasta is in the plate", can't it? It didn't accept it :/ I think it would be a 'formal' way of speaking...
I believe "your" would be "la tua pasta...". "La sua pasta" would be his or her pasta.
@cen3petal Correct! If you want to express in a formal way, you have to use the capital letter (singular), "Sua", "Le", "La", (plural) "Vostra", "Vostri", "Vostre", "Vi", "Loro", and even more. It doesn't matter the gender here, we're talking about a person or people... obviously not "Tua", because "tua" is informal.
I don't think we can. given the lack of context, Duo accepts "his" or "her."
I translated it into his spaghetti is in the plate, they didn't accept it!
Thank you marziotta! I really thought it could be, because it is the same in Portuguese!
Careful, we capitalize the first letter to distinguish between formal you and she, for several reasons: Accademia della Crusca supports this, most people who teach Italian use this method, and a number of users only began to learn Italian here (with plenty of sentences out of context) so using "lei" for both "she" and "you" would be a pretty wild way to start out! If you see "lei" or "suo" in the middle of a sentence, it is only accepted as "she" or 3rd person possessive. But if it "Lei" or "Suo" is capitalized, feel free to translate it with the formal you/your/yours!
Does the word sua refer to any specific gender or can it both mean his and her?
Yes, it is just sua because the object (pasta) is feminine. Sua/Suo do not specify his or hers - it could be either.
And can't "La sua pasta" be "his pasta" ? That's the isdue with trying to teach languages "the parrot way" rather than first teaching the words and rules as they are.
How would you say "her pasta is in her plate"? That's what I thought it meant
Wouldn't it be nello and not nel? Nello meaning 'on the' rather than just 'on'
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The last lesson taught me pasta =meal. So I wrote 'her meal is on the plate' and was marked wrong. A little consistency would be nice.
For real life use, though - how do you communicate that the pasta on the plate is hers, not his? At that point in an actual conversation do you simply use someone's actual name? Learning so I don't sound like a complete entitled jerk when we go to Italy, but not at the point of using Italian in conversation yet.
Your pasta is in the plate is also a completely correct translation. Software appears too inflexible.
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how can we know if q kitchen is masc./feminine? do people go around to check this out?? it is so ridicous to be so hung-up on this gender stuff. no wonder the tourists dont stay there very long
