"Their bear is hungry."
Translation:Il loro orso ha fame.
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The interesting thing here is that in italian (as well as in spanish) hunger is not something to be but rather something to have...
Not at all. It has the same meaning. Let's say that: "Ho fame." means LITERALLY "I have hunger." And "Sono affamato." means "I am hungry." However, "Ho fame." is more common than "Sono affamato". :)
In Portuguese, French, German and allot of other languages too, tbh English is prob one of the few that doesnt accept this form
There are people saying here that in Portuguese it's the same, and I should disagree, at least referring to the Brazilian Portuguese. The standard form of saying that here would be "estou com fome", which means literally "I am with hunger". "Tenho fome" (I have hunger) doesn't sound natural to me and I guess that to most Brazilians it doesn't either. Our way to say "sono affamato" seems to be "estou faminto", but it doesn't have the same connotation as "estou com fome". If you say "estou faminto" it seems that you are way hungrier than just saying "estou com fome" — in other words, it probably means something like "I'm starving".
Anyways, this is the Italian course, but I wanted to clear this up. :)
Yes, German has both expressions. And there also is a verb for it: "hungern" (to hunger)
I honestly had forgotten about it! My native language is spanish (I'm studying in english so I my skills don't fade), and normally I compare italian to spanish 'cause it's easier; but this time I got it completely wrong.
So to make loro possessive, we had il? So "Il loro" is "their," where "loro" is just "they?"
Not really, loro can be either: you can distinguish by the role in the sentence, as a personal pronoun is a noun while a possessive pronoun is an adjective. Possessives tend to go before the name they refer to, so they usually come after an article, if one is needed.
So 'the horse' is il cavallo, right? In English we would just say that it's 'their horse,' without adding 'the' in front of it again. It's not really important for us to do that because nouns don't really have (grammatical) genders. But since in Italian we have to specify that 'horse' is a masculine word, we stick 'the' into the possessive statement as well (or at least, that's my guess as to the reasoning behind this rule). 'Loro' means 'they' as a subject but it's also, apparently, a possessive adjective. So we just stick 'loro' in its assigned slot between the noun and the article (which helps to specify the gender of the noun). End result: 'il loro cavallo.'
(Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I do NOT feel like an expert in Italian XD)
One of the options to choose from was "Their bear has marmalade." I'm reminded of Padington.
bah this one was tricky. i tried to do something with l'orso and loro, but didnt think i should break "l'orso" nice sentence anyway
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If it is "l'orso", why isn't it "lo loro orso"? Isn't "l'" just an abbreviation of "lo"?
Yes, it is; however the article doesn't depend on the word it refers to, but literally on the following letters, e.g. "la montagna" but "l'alta montagna", "lo stadio" but "il nuovo stadio". Most adjectives would go after the noun, but for those that go before, like the possessives, you have to consider this as well :)
I think its not correct because Lo is used for the nouns only begin with Z, Y, X, PS, PN, GN But we use l only for the nouns that begin with vouwels. So there is a big different between them
Nope: in Italian you almost always have to use a definite article before a possessive adjective. A common exception is for singular and unmodified family members, but that doesn't apply to "loro" in any case.
Reading the comments below, no one seemed to have noticed the fact that Duo finds it normal for a person to own a bear... Also, a hungry bear would eat its human.
"is hungry" should be "è fame", right? Then why did the answer gave ha fame?
I am learning Italian and am very new myself so could be wrong but from what I have learnt is you cannot be hungry in Italian you have to "have" hunger so the translation is not literal. We are translating English "is hungry" to Italian "have hunger" that's why it is "ha fame"
Il suo orso was what I was looking for too, but since Suo wasnt an option, loro seemed the obvious choice. I didnt precede it with Il so I flunked it
why is this sentence correct (Il loro orso ha fame ) I put ( Il loro orso è fame and it said I was wrong why?
Because in Italian you can't say "Lui è fame", but "Lui HA fame" ("He has hunger"). To use "è" you should write "Lui è affamato" ("affamato" = "hungry").
"La loro orsa ha fame" should have been accepted, female bears can be hungry too.
I find it strange that "loro orso" doesn't get contracted somehow. Italians seem so fond of shortening words.
Because, that's the way they form sentences. Remember, you are learning one of the oldest languages, which is latin based. They say things backwards sometimes as well. Don't try and match the words exactly to English. Good idea, look into the structure of Italian sentences, it may help. ie: "John's book" would be "the book of John" Il libro di John.
Cant their also imply singular? Jim's bear is hungry: talking about Jim to someone else, their bear is hungry. Why isnt il suo orso ha fame accepted?
The word orso was misspelled bt the grammar of the whole sentence was correct
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Why can't I say "loro orso ha fame"? Is the "il" really needed? A lot of other phrases allow us to suppress that, like when we say "scriviamo un libro".