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"The clothes"
Translation:I vestiti
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Clothes include pants, skirts, etc and dresses. Can someone please clarify when "vestiti" = dresses and when "vestiti" = clothes?
Abiti also means clothes per the Collins Italian to English Dictionary. I have no idea why Duolingo is not accepting that option.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english/abiti
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Plural words do not allow for elision of letters from preceding articles and determiners. With singular nouns, if they begin with a vowel, then both la and lo are shortened to l'
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lo is also used in front of masculine (not "male") nouns. When you see words like l'abito, it's not il but lo being shortened to l'. You can deduce this by the fact that the plural article in front of masculine nouns starting with a vowel is gli rather than i; the plural is gli abiti.
You see the same pattern with masculine nouns that start with s + [consonant], gn, and z, e.g., lo stivale/gli stivali.
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Abiti is a suit? I said abbilglimente. That's clothing but I don't know how dress changes to clothes.