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"You eat a sandwich."
Translation:Tu mangi un panino.
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Tu mangi is definitely right its called grammar I guess how I learn it ??!!!!! So not sure why my mistake is spelling panini instead if panino hmmm error
tu mangi means "you (singular, informal) eat"
panini is plural, it means "sandwiches"
panino is singular, it means "sandwich"
The "panino/panini" issue has nothing to do with "tu mangi".
Nope, as mukkapazza pointed out 'voi' should work, just make sure you conjugate the verb properly, that it 'voi mangiate un panino'. Mind you 'you eat a sandwich' can also be translated as 'Lei mangia un panino' in which case the pronoun should always be capitalised, no matter where it falls in the sentence just like I in English, and it would be the formal you.
so... i had the options "Tu mangi un panino." and "Tu fai un panino." as well as something else that clearly wasn't correct. Why would "fai" not be accepted as eat here, but it is in other cases, e.g., "Fai colazione?"
The verb "fare" means "to do/make", which is not the same as "mangiare", which means "to eat".
When do you use "un" and when do you use "uno"? Ehy wouldn't it be "uno panino"?
Rules for the indefinite article:
Masculine
https://i.imgur.com/ioiRcSS.png
Feminine
https://i.imgur.com/7WZMfoO.png
Rules for the definite article:
I wrote Mangi il panino, and it said it was wrong, that it should be Tu mangi... Was 'Tu' really necessary?
No, the "tu" is not necessary, but it marked you wrong for "il" panino where it should have been "un" panino. The prompt is "a" sandwich and you said "the" sandwich.
You can't mix and match the subject and verb like that.
https://i.imgur.com/8atYu1Y.png
https://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=mangiare
io mangio
tu mangi
lui/lei mangia
noi mangiamo
voi mangiate
loro mangiano
Tu Mangi or tu Mangia, surely both are correct as the question does not define formal or informal ? Why was I wrong to put Tu Mangi ? I accept that I spelt panino wrong, but the answer gave two reasons for being wrong.
Formality or informality is not the question here as both Tu and tu are informal. The only reason the first example is capitalized is because if starts a sentence. Not to be confused with the formal Lei or the informal lei - and that can be confusing when one of them starts a sentence! Understand also the verb conjugation: Mangi = you (informal singular) eat. Mangia = He/She/It eats. Hope this helps.
If you used Tu Mangi, well, that's a mistake in Mangi as the verb wouldn't be capitalised (I presume that was a typing error :)). Tu mangia is the imperative sounding something like 'YOU eat a sandwich'.
Absolutely. Using the imperative "Tu mangia un panino!" would need an exclamation mark at the end of the written sentence to understand it was a command.
Precisely. And chances are tu wouldn't even show up in the imperative, unless perhaps you're directing a cast and crew :)
Correct. It changes as another way of expressing the imperitive, though it must have a exclamation point to express that it is a command. Otherwise... no one knows.
This is how mangiare conjugates in the present tense:
io mangio
tu mangi
lui/lei mangia
noi mangiamo
voi mangiate
loro mangiano
I am still not understanding why it is correct to translate "You eat" as "Mangia" when my conjugator clearly indicates that Mangia = He/She/It eats, and Mangi = You eat. Please explain.
See the comment made by Chris123456. The formal you 'Lei' follows the same conjugation rules as she 'lei'.
