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"The women have belts on their skirts."
Translation:Le donne hanno cinture sulle gonne.
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why is "le donne hanno cinture sulle sue gonne" incorrect? it's "their" not "the"...
1193
Aaahhhaaaaa, - thank you!
As the skirts (in most cases) obviously belongs to the women wearing them . . . we do not need to specify this!!! Therefore we drop the loro(/their) part of the sentence . . . got it!
Now I only need to remember and implement it . . .
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No she had the sue correct, it's just a question of whether it's necessary, or even if not necessary, still correct usage?
1193
I'll try to help, - even if I am not sure what you wrote . .
The women have belts = Le donne hanno cinture
on their skirts = sulle (su+le) (loro)* gonne
* When the owner is considered obvious Italians usually skip the possessive.
In this case it would be considered strange if the women had belts on somebody else's dresses, - so 'their', (le loro), is skipped and only 'on the skirts', (sulle gonne), is kept .
1126
Would "Le donne hanno cinture sulle LORO gonne" be incorrect? Is that "loro" unnecessary or actually wrong?
yes, I know. I´m just confused because in French you add "de" - literally, you say "I don´t have [any] of the belts". Like there´s a set of all belts and from those, you don´t have one. I think there´s a similar construct in Russian called the partitive genitive.
But thank you for answering so quickly :)
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Did you get it wrong with the possessive pronoun?
I assume your answer included sulle loro gonne.
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DL accepts "le donne hanno (le) cinture sulle (loro) gonne" with or without words in brackets.
1193
As the skirts (in most cases) obviously belongs to the women wearing them we do not need the possessiv article in Italian.
1193
I think it would have to be 'su le loro gonne', - but when it's considered obvious (normally with body parts, clothes, accessories) you can/should drop the possessive.
If you e.g. 'give somebody a hand' or somebody is wearing glasses it can normally be consider it is your hand and their glasses. (And would it not be worth noting if it's not your own hand you are offering?)