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- "No, non sei un uomo."
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Well, I was saying that you don't get to tell someone else whether they are a man or not. They decide that for themselves. And I guess a lot of people agreed with me or thought my comment was funny or something.
It Still surprises me, how a simple phrase to be translated, has the power to overtake a person's rational thoughts and responses.
I agree with Adam_Prov16.9: I respect the comment and appreciate the humor, but face it, people are fickle and perhaps rilianxi would even agree that he got lucky. I have seen some very helpful comments & many excellent questions with good intentions go largely ignored or not up-voted at all, take mine for instance... ...well, and other places too!
Reminded me of "Thought he was a man but he was a muffin!" from Zappa - Muffin Man :)
Wow. I took it to mean something a parent might say to a boy who wants to drive the car, bench press weights or maybe drink vodka or something. Meaning that this is something he can look forward to doing when he is a grown man.
I mean, as a woman, I didn't read any insult into learning how to say "I am a girl." It could be a statement of fact, not meant as a put-down.
I keep typing "YES I AM" as the answer, but it keeps telling me I'm wrong. What's the issue?
You're right. I have the same problem ... your answer should be correct...... They have it wrong... .
If I had a meatball for every gender put into my Spaghetti al Formaggio Parmiggianno , I would have 2 meatballs.
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child ; when I became a man I did away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11
The correction said: "No, you're not one man". But up here the phrase is correct.
Una would be "an". For "An apple" you wouldn't say "Un mela", you'd say "Una mela".
I was wondering, do the Italian have their own equivalent of the English shortening? For example: "you are" becomes "you're". Thanks, L.E
Really? Sorry, just asked my dad and he said in some cases. Thanks anyway! L.E
In the dialects or in the slang, contrary to the English the Italian don't use to shorten the words. Greets your father on my behalf
My father comes from the Abruzzo - his variation is probably slightly different. Thanks for all your help, you seem like a REALLY nice person. L.E
I mean, who am I to tell someone that? They probably know their own gender better than me
"No" don't have the "h".For the pronounciation you can visit FORVO, it's like NOT without the T.
I can pronounce this just fine, but it keeps telling me I should skip the question after three failed attempts. I suppose it's probably my phone's mic.
I wish there was a playback button so you could hear yourself and the recording
sees harmless translation challenge checks for funny comments nope just a bunch of people making it into something political moving on
Thanks for letting me know that I'm not a man, I really needed to know that!
When you’re talking to one person and don’t require a formal verb form. For the full conjugation of essere, see https://www.verbi-italiani.info/en/conjugation/96-essere.html .
I'm curious where I find the "you" in you are not a man. Or how I should know it's not I am not a man or she is not a man etc.
•Yosemite Sam voice• Whyyy dems fightin' words, ya long eared galoot!
I think "no" is used when answering someone in the negative. "Are you having fun? No."
But "Non" would be like saying "not" as in "i will not do that" or "apples are not blue"
Thats my very limited understanding.
In "Game of Thrones", with the antagonist mounting his accusations, while at the end each time pronouncing: "... No, you are not a man!".
A mother saying saying it to her son who thinks hes grown but not... lol I try not to look at if the sentence, when translated, makes sence in english. I look at the setup, how the words are used, what each word means, and grammer rules so I can build my Italian.
I get confused with this sentence. I feel like it should be No, non tu sei e uomo.
"No, you are not and man"? Or if you mean è, "No you are is not man?" That's what you're proposing translates to, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense in either language!
The verb conjugations in romance languages include the pronomial meaning; however a subject pronoun can be added for emphatic purposes.
Is this something with the grammar? What is the grammar rule in this sentence?
WHEN WOULD YOU USE THIS PHRASE?!??!?!?!?!!!?!?!?! (no non sei un uomo example)
a person walks into a store he hells "GUESS WHAT I AM!!"
and heres a list of responses
50 people said "a man"
another 50 said "a woman"
20 did "a girl"
40 went "a boy"
and the best answer... "a human being going shopping" a grand total of ONE said that
in truth he was a fish so all was wrong and he shouted "I AM NOT A FISH I AM A SALMON!"
and he stormed out cursing.
-----^THE END^-----
or the person could be transexual and the other interlocutor is realistic
This comment received tons of downvotes. It's disturbing how many people want to play make-believe with the mentally ill. It's the equivalent of telling a schizophrenic that several radios are on. There is such thing as reality. No, the radio is not on, and no, you are not male if you were a female at conception. Downvote me all you want. Anything outside of reality is only in one's head - a concept that shouldn't need to be argued. Postmodernism is delusion.
It seems unlikely that your view of "reality" includes scientific research, but in case it does, you might want to do some reading, on the off-chance that you learn something:
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-something-unique-about-the-transgender-brain/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-biology-idUSKBN1AJ0F0
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/how-science-helps-us-understand-gender-identity/
Enjoy.
I heard static from my microphone, and I was like. OMG LAVENDER TOWN! I was all like: "I got it right...?"
I don't get it either. I think that there should be a "Tu" in there, but I guess that Italian is just different that way.
In most romance languages, including Italian and Spanish (w/ the primary exception of French), the subject pronoun is frequently dropped because it is usually obvious from the conjugation of the verb. You can see that "sei" is a form of the verb essere and is conjugated in the tu-form. Don't be so anglocentric :-) There are many languages that are pro-drop. If you'd like to read more, here's a link to the Wikipedia page about pro-drop languages http://goo.gl/xs4My . You're lucky! In some languages such as Japanese the pronoun is dropped even when the language does not have verb conjugations that reflect person (1st person, 2nd person, etc.).
Gee Duolingo. You're being a bit too harsh on trannies here, don't you think?
