"He is a boy."
Translation:Lui è un ragazzo.
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I believe that "uno" means "one" and un is pretty much the male verson of "una", which is like "a" in that it's indefinite. Even though I'm a newbie, I know the difference.
If you're on a mobile device you can usually press and hold the letter to bring up accent options.
Im a newbie but in my country we learn French and I french we have Je suis Tu es Il est Nous sommes Vouz êtes Ils sont Which is the same in english I am You are He, she, it is We are You are They are I italian it's like Io è Tu sei ... So just imagine as "è" being "am" and "sei" being "is" I hope this helped
Use è for 'is'. Its just the way the langusage works. I don't think é exists as a word in Italian but i may be wrong. I put é in once and it mistook it for a 6 and i got it wrong.
It said I was wrong when I answered "Lui è un ragazzo" and corrected me with "È un bimbo", why?
That would be the grammatically correct pronoun corresponding to "he", but especially in spoken language it's uncommon and archaic and lui is preferred, even though grammatically speaking that should be used only as object and not subject.
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Articles have to match gender and number of the noun they refer to.
The singular determinate articles (the) are:
Lo - masculine, used before Z, S+consonant, GN, and some rarer consonant clusters. Il - masculine, used before consonants except the above. La - feminine, used before all consonants. L' - an elision of the above used before vowels. The indeterminate articles (a/an) are:
Uno - masculine, used before Z, S+consonant, GN, and some rarer consonant clusters. Un - masculine, used in all other cases. Una - feminine, used before all consonants. Un' - feminine, used before vowels."
I just copied the explanation below Basics 1.
Me neither but i put one just before or after it and it accepts as complete
the first one is masculine, the second one is feminine. You have to memorize which nouns are masculine and which are feminine.
Hi, unfortunately my phone does not the correct accent on an "e". Now it's always wrong what I type...
My phone will not let me put the mark above theve in the correct spot. Its preventing me from moving on
what is the meaning of the letter è? why is it different from a regular e?
e = and
è = to be, third person singular present simple (is)
- L'uomo e la donna mangiano/the man and the woman eat
- L'uomo non è una donna/the man is not a woman
Technically, è is supposed to have more of an emphasis on the word, but in casual conversation they are usually pronounced so similarly it can be hard to tell the difference
One's an article, one's a pronoun. "Lui" is a translation of "he"; "il" is a masculine "the", so "il ragazzo" (the boy). It's similar to "lei" (she) and "la" ("the", as in "la donna").
Idont quite knw the meaning of the words my self at i on just started yedyrday
It was wrong so i typed it on the internet and it was said a completly different thing
My keyboard doesn't allow me to leave an accent mark in the appropriate place on the letter and it marks against me. That needs to be corrected for those ofvus who have American/English keyboards.
I am familiar with the sentence and words associated with it, however, my keyboard doesn't allow me to put the accent mark above the "e" and it counted against me. I believe there should be some sort of relief or acknowledgment for keypads that cannot spell in other languages.
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OK, I get this language. I feel it and I see it practically as well, but for some reason (I've only started last night, to be fair) I keep replacing è with Lui, meaning MISplacing them and put è before Lui. What is this about...? Did it ever happen to you? What can I do to learn from it? Any help would be appreciated. Thnx.
The sentence is correct, the mistake is the space between the words.
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Él es un niño. (in Spanish)
Ele é un menino (in Portuguese)
Il est un garçon. (in French)
Every time i hear the word "Italian", i think of the Super Mario Brothers. :/
Why does it say that youre aloud to use fai but then it says that it's wrong
I am very confused with the terms "Un" and "Una", what is the difference?
I am typing this exact way in English and Duolingo says it's incorrect.
Ditemi che non sono l unica che è italiana e faccio italiano solo per guadagnare xp
What is the differece between sono and e (with the sign on top of it, not the word "and" )
Argh, the accent is going to take some getting used to after studying French for so long.
I made a minor mistake like in this sentence here "lui è un ragazzo" "é" this was the mistake does this makes much difference in a sentence. Somebody Please clarify.
It doesn't make much difference in writing Italian I'm assuming but the way you pronounce it out loud can make all the difference in what you're saying.
Any vowel that is the last letter of a word can have a grave accent (è) only the letters e can have the acute accent (é). The difference between the Italian accents is simply the pronunciation of the vowel." -italianpod101.com
Hi, I believe I can just pass time learning on Duolingo than to learn something interesting. Another language. And the best way to bunk school online;!!I love bunking school.
Why does the prompt tell me I've translated the sentence correctly, but takes away a heart?
According to hints "he is" can be just "lui"(aside from "lui è") therefore, is this "Lui un ragazzo" the same as "Lui è un ragazzo" ?
I got it wrong for saying una rather than un because the character was a woman speaking. Are italian masc / fem pronouns based on the subject of the sentence or the person speaking the sentence?
In Portuguese we can say "Eu sou menino" (in English: "I am a boy") instead "Eu sou um menino"
So, in Italian, can we say "Io sono ragazzo" instead "Io sono un ragazzo"?
