"Io sono sua mamma, l'altra è sua zia."
Translation:I am his mom, the other is his aunt.
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sua mamma can be HIS or HER mom/mother mamma. "Sua" is possessive for BOTH his AND hers!
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On 17.08.2020 accepted HER MOM and HER AUNT. Are you sure that you have put HER for both MOM and AUNT? Another solution given by DL is HIS MOM and HIS AUNT. As written at the top.
I think it wants mamma to be translated as mum/mom and madre to be translated as mother. But I agree it should definitely accept both.
Mom is American,not British. Mother should really be accepted. Reported 28/7/2014
mom is mamma, mother is madre. Generalizations can paint you into a corner.
I think Duo is teaching us Italian, not English. And mamma is the equivalent of Mum, Mom, Mummy. Madre is Mother. Do the hearts actually matter?
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after this practice, I get so confused that I no longer know how to call my own mother (or mom, or mommy, or......)
I can identify with this confusion and frustration. I tend to think along with DavidMcLeod's comment and assessment above, but I also cross my fingers! ♡ :-)
English English children go to their Mum. "Mom"is to them unknown, as Chaucer might have said..........
Perhaps. "Mum" in Cumbria and Nottinghamshire. "Mam" also. "Mummy", "Mum', and "Mam" carry some typically English class signals. "Mom" is rare up here.
I am her mom, the other is her aunt is not accepted!! March 12, 2020. This is so obviously a big DL mistake!
DL, this is uncouth English. No mom would just say "the other one" when referring to her sisiter in front of her child, unless she lived in the street and had alredy drunk a fair amount of liquor.
The other what? Coffee cup perhaps? No halfway intelligent native speaker of English would use this, but refer to "the other lady", or "the other woman". Other on its own is purely insulting. But Duolingo disagrees - of course!
The male voice appears to pronounce "zia" with a "t" like the Spanish "tia"
I am her mama should be accepted. This is ridiculous. I'm not American and will not use Mom anyway. And why is her not accepted? Thsi is a mistake on Duo's part.
I translated l'altra as 'the other one' and was marked wrong. Is there that big of a difference between the other and the other one?
I put 'the other lady'. It sounds wrong in English to refer to people simply as 'the other'
Italian version of this question does not accept madre english version does not accept mother. You cannot win.
No, because the article is not required for singular official family relationships. HOWEVER, "mamma" is not one of these, so it should read "...LA sua mamma". Reported.
Was chipped for using aunty instead of aunt. Aunty is the accepted term in Australian english
I said 'the other one' and it is counted wrong, whereas it is better English in my opinion, but certainly not wrong!
The m sound is one of the easiest for the speech apparatus to make and thus it's many variations in Romance languages to identify the life-giving person for the infant.
I have already commented that "mama" is a proper English diminutive for mother, especially where I live here in the southern US. Here most people don't say "mom." It sounds coarse to us.
I agree i do not often understand the marking of duo When the answer can bw masculine or femine
