"The recipe is in your wallet."
Translation:La ricetta è nel tuo portafoglio.
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that makes sense, but then duo should have (when u hover over it) "tuo" instead of "il tuo"
That does make sense. I wish I'd known that many, many lessons ago. I think I'll swing by lesson one and share that.
Grazie
i know this comments is 6 years old, but i needed this! thanks, it's a big help
You need to say "il tuo portafoglio" to indicate the possession/ownership, and the "è in il tuo . . " is contracted to "è nel tuo . . "
when a male noun beginning with st, z, sp follows, you use nello otherwise nel for males and nella for females
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To add to @Thomas_Mangold's comment, you would use «nell'» when the next word starts with a vowel, nonostante il genere
"portafogli" is also correct in the singular. "portafoglio" is more used in financial sector (equity portfolio).
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una ricevuta or scontrino is a receipt. However, una ricetta is a recipe, a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients required. Little bit weird to put in your wallet, but that's what Duo said.
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Gendered nouns in Italian have nothing to do with real gender. It is called grammatical gender. Languages just randomly assign gender to common nouns. It has nothing to do with the people who speak the words.
Why "La ricetta sta nel tuo portafoglio." is not accepted. I am not deep into Italian yet, but my impression is that 'stare' would indicate the location of an object.
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No, Italian is not like Portuguese and Spanish. Locations are also expressed using «essere», most commonly. The verb «stare» is usually only used to mean "to stay," to ask how someone is doing, and for the present continuous tense. It can sometimes be used for locations, if you are describing where something is normally kept. Here is a video that explains really well how to use the two verbs as they relate to locations for people and for objects.
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La ricetta e nel Suo portafoglio is the proposed translation. Why is suo written with a capital s?
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When you see a capital possessive «Suo» (or any of its gendered variants), it comes from the capital «Lei», which is the formal singular "you."
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That would mean that multiple people share one wallet, which inherently is not necessarily wrong... maybe not common, though
Can anyone explain when we use in and when to use nel? (With examples if possible)
nel = in + il = in the
There is a lot on the italian definite articles on ThoghCo and if you scroll down there is also a part on when to use them (most times) and when not to use them.
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I wrote (and reported) "la ricetta è nel tuo portafogli" since in Italian (I am Italian) you can say "portafogli" even for a single wallet and it is the best form reported in all Italian dictionaries...
This is interesting, because it goes against the grammar. 'nel tuo' implies singular, right? I am not a native Italian speaker, but I admit the fact that there are many dialects in Italia.
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The plural is referred to the foglio or fogli. You can have more than one foglio in your portafoglio so you can perfectly say portafogli and so it is reported correctly on EVERY Italian dictionary that I know of. And definitely it is NOT a dialect form.
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nel tuo portafoglia: "in your wallet" (singular your)
nel vostro portafoglia: "in your wallet" (plural your). That's odd, one wallet shared by several people.
Interesting observation.. but grammatically, this still should be correct :) !
I suppose both versions are possible . . even if it's somewhat odd if you (all) share a single wallet. . . è nel tuo portafoglio. / . . è nel vostro portafoglio.
