"Noi scriviamo, voi scrivete."
Translation:We write, you write.
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English grammar is so easy that I feel uncomfortable when people have problems remembering "I write,you write,he writeS,we write,you write, they write".... (talked about this with my British friend, no offence/offense to English native speakers :-) )
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LOL, definitely... I'm an English teacher for Spanish native speakers, and that's one of the first things I make them realize... There are no conjugations in English! :D
I am glad that we don't have to really conjugate anything... But other languages have an EXTREME amount of conjugations. This is why i struggle with languages like Spanish or Portugese.
If it were your native language, you wouldn't think twice about the conjugations. But it's not some impenetrable mystery. Most of the verbs are regular and follow a simple pattern. Learn the pattern and you can conjugate all of the regular verbs.
This is a basic chart for the regular Italian present tense verbs. All you do is remove the infinitive suffix (-are, -ere, -ire) and add on the appropriate person suffix. The hardest part is knowing whether an -ire verb is type 1 or type 2, but apparently there are not very many type 2 -ire verbs, so you just have to memorize them as you come across them.
Correct, it seems easy with just the 1st person singular to change - but not so easy without a 'conditional' tense, then you have to chose between 'will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, would have, should have, could have, might have, must have, won't, shan't, can't, mightn't, mustn't, haven't got to, don't have to, ought to, oughtn't...........and many others all with subtle differences, plus over 2000 phrasal verbs. English is very easy in the beginning, but as you progress in order to become fully competent in the language is very complicated as there are hardly any grammar rules to guide you, you just have to learn by ear and get a feel for what is right. You have a VERY impressive array of language skills, you obviously have a talent for languages, I wish I could say the same for me.
I agree with you. And actually learning a language starts to become truly interesting once you get to the complicated part of it. When you are already capable of expressing yourself in a plain way and you start to pay attention to the minor details that make your speech and writing more accurate, colourful and refined.
I'm English and I found it difficult at first to remember the different words. But I've been remembering them from the first few lessons. As in 'I am - Io sono - Io bevo/leggo/scrivo'. 'We are - Noi siamo - noi beviamo/abitiamo/parliamo' etc, it was a little confusing at first but It's helping to remember like this. I've only been learning Italian for just over a week but getting there :)
Italian is pretty regular. Here's a link to a conjugation chart that should clear things up a bit:
For me, so far, "possessions" has been my most difficult section of the lessons. I have a super hard time remembering when it's "la mia", "i miei", "il mio", "i vostri", "vostre", "il vostro", "il nostro", "i nostri", "le nostre", "la nostra", "la sua", "il suo", le sue". It helps when the earlier lessons appear "broken" and I have to repair them. It reinforces what I've learned and helps me understand better each time. Those possession words though, man oh man!
Here's something on the possessives that should help you:
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/306864?comment_id=34707869
You think that because present tense conjugation in English is easy all English grammar is easy?! Give me a break. That's an incredibly ignorant thing to say.
Let's be honest, it's much easier than latin-derived languages and not a single one compares to how hard Finnish is.
One issue often for foreigners learning English is we have different pronunciations of our letters so sometimes choosing which sound, if it will be 'a' or 'A' for example can be pure guesswork at times. Also of course we have loads of words that sound the same but are spelt different such as 'wait' and 'weight'. My Spanish partner was forever pointing out these 'stupidities' in the English language!
English is definitely super easy with its verbs conjugations. But for me nothing beats Indonesian, all verbs always have only one conjugation for any person and/or tense. For example, the verb "to eat" is "makan" and so are all its conjugations (and it's true for all verbs):
Aku makan (I eat / ate / will eat)
Kamu makan (you eat / ate / will eat)
Dia makan (he/she eats / ate / will eat)
Kami makan (we eat / ate / will eat)
Kalian makan (y'all eat / ate / will eat)
Mereka makan (they eat / ate / will eat)
English does not distinguish between you, singular and you, plural. Duolingo occasionally puts "you all" simply as a way of emphasizing that it's the plural "you."
Why isnt it noi scriviamo, tu scrivi? And when is voi used as you and when as "you all"?
Sanika looking at the chart a few steps up this discussion provided by Rae.F this is what I understand; ..noi (we - us) - scriviamo (write) ..tu (you - 1 person) scrivi (write) ..voi (you - more than 1 person) scrivo (I write) - example; scrivo a tutti voi (I write to you all) ..voi (you - more than 1 person) scrivete (write) - example; tutti voi scrivete a me (you all write to me) not sure if that is correct but that is how it makes me understand. if I am wrong please feel free anyone to correct me
According to the rules of English, just "you" is fine.
Duolingo writes "you all" when it wants to restrict "you" to plural.
Note that the header for this page itself reads "Translation: We write, you write." ...
Still though, it's ambiguous in English. "You" can be singular or plural.
Yes, exactly.
je = yo = I
tu = tu = you (sg)
il = lui = he
elle = lei = she
nous = noi = we
vous = voi = you (pl)
ils = loro = they
elles = loro = they
The main difference between "vous" and "voi" is that "vous" can be the singular formal in French. In Italian, the singular formal is "Lei" and the plural formal is "Loro" with capital letters.
Can someone please write to me all the conjugations to reading and writing verbs in Italian,i find it a bit hard to gather them on Duolingo.
You may have to copy and paste link. I tried clicking and it takes you to a Spanish lesson. Sorry.
This is the same link, but easier to click.
EDIT: For some reason, the link stopped working right. I'm trying to fix it, but I don't know why it's breaking. When you do get to the link, just click on the sidebar under "Italian" where it says "Italian verbs".
...I just cannot seem to keep it all in my head..he writes , she writes , I write etc etc in Italian..in English we have one word for write no matter who is writing..does anyone have any tips to help my memory..?
In Italian, all verbs are conjugated uniquely to who is doing it. Most verbs are regular, so you can just follow a conjugation chart based on whether the infinitive ends in -are, -ere, or -ire.
http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blverbs01.htm
The trick is knowing when to use which conjugation for -ire verbs.
....looking at the chart a few steps up this discussion provided by you Rae.F... this is what I understand; ..noi (we - us) - scriviamo (write) ..tu (you - 1 person) scrivi (write) ..voi (you - more than 1 person) scrivo (I write) - example; scrivo a tutti voi (I write to you all) ..voi (you - more than 1 person) scrivete (write) - example; tutti voi scrivete a me (you all write to me) not sure if that is correct but that is how it makes me understand. if I am wrong please feel free to correct me..all help gratefully received..
There is no reason to say "tutti voi" because "voi" is already the plural "you". The only reason we say "you all" in English is because we have one "you" that covers both singular and plural, and so "you all" makes it clear we mean the plural.
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tutti voi could still be used, when aiming to say "every single one of you"... so it may change the color of the content to emphasize on "you all without exception". Tutti voi avete superato l'esame = all of you have passed the exam.
tu is the singular "you"
voi is the plural "you"
The verb must conjugate appropriately.
Go into your settings https://www.duolingo.com/settings/account and turn off Microphone and Speaker. You might have to do this separately on the mobile app.
so, if scriviamo is the conjugaation of 'we' i wonder, what is the infinitive form of scriviamo?
Hey can some one help me. I dont understand this one. I think scrivete was writes, scriveti was write Scriviamo ?? (ing)
Italian conjugates verbs more thoroughly than English does.
I write = io scrivo
you (s) write = tu scrivi
he/she writes = lui/lei scrive
we write = noi scriviamo
you (pl) write = voi scrivete
they write = loro scrivono
All regular verbs follow a pattern like this. There's more discussion in the rest of the comments here.
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I wrote 'we write; you all write.' it was marked as incorrect. It was Duolingo's idea to use this 'you all' expression. Not mine.
I had the same problem... not sure why it's being marked wrong as it's the same thing with or without the 'all'.
I wrote: "We write, you all write" and was marked wrong... isn't it the same thing whether the 'all' is there or not as it's you plural?
I can't remember the differences between all the different variations of the same word. Example: Write - scrive, scriviamo, scrivo, etc.
http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blverbs01.htm
That should help. The infinitive of "to write" in Italian is "scrivere" and so you'd follow the "-ere" conjugation:
SCRIVERE
(io) scriv-o
(tu) scriv-i
(lui) scriv-e
(noi) scriv-iamo
(voi) scriv-ete
(loro) scriv-ono
Hi thanks for the scrivere thing, bit confused with (Tu) and (Voi) both mean 'you' is this correct ?
looking at the chart in this discussion provided by Rae.F this is what I understand; ..noi (we - us) - scriviamo (write) ..tu (you - 1 person) scrivi (write) ..voi (you - more than 1 person) scrivo (I write) - example; scrivo a tutti voi (I write to you all) ..voi (you - more than 1 person) scrivete (write) - example; tutti voi scrivete a me (you all write to me) not sure if that is correct but that is how it makes me understand. if I am wrong please feel free anyone to correct me; http://dante-learning.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/verbi-regolari-presente-indicativo.jpg
Most of the verbs are regular, which means if you know how the infinitive ends, you can use a chart to determine how they conjugate. The three endings are -are, -ere, and -ire. There are two different patterns for -irebut I don't know when you use which one or even if there are any rules for that.
bere, "to drink", is considered irregular, even though it follows the regular -ere rules: The stem turns into bev- first.
Here is some information on some irregular verbs:
- First conjugation irregular verbs
- Second conjugation irregular verbs
- Third conjugation irregular verbs
Yeah .. and I have a problems too ..
That I actually can't discriminate the difference between "scrivete" and "scriviamo" and another words else
I don't know when I use those :/
Any body can help me? :/
The infinitive is scrivere: http://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=scrivere
io scrive = I write
tu scrivi = you write (singular)
lui/lei scrive = he/she writes
noi scriviamo = we write
voi scrivete = you write (plural)
loro scrivono = they write
Is Italian like Spanish which uses the verb forms without the subject pronouns sometimes? What is the rule on that?
The basic rule, in Italian as in Spanish, is that if the subject is obvious from context, you can drop it.
They come from the same place as the Spanish "nosotros" and "vosotros" and mean the same thing:
nosotros = noi = we
vosotros = voi = y'all
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