"Which hat is yours?"
Translation:Quale cappello è il tuo?
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annazabaldo: A couple of sentences back, I got "qual borsa" as correct, yet here it's "quale cappello," so the consonant is not the cue. Perhaps it's gender? I too am confused.
Explained here:
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/22637554/Quale-or-Qual-in-Italian-When-to-use-which
Either you're mis-remembering "qual borsa" or Duo glitched.
suo
can mean "his" or "hers". It agrees with the thing owned, not with who owns it.
il suo = his/her singular masculine thing
i suoi = his/her plural masculine/mixed/unknown things
la sua = his/her singular feminine thing
le sue = his/her plural feminine things
Suo
can mean "yours" because Lei
is the formal singular "you" and it takes all of the trappings of 3rd person singular.
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I was confused too. Here's an explanation I found useful: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=877807
As already mentioned, it is the polite form (Lei). But: In southern Italy you might hear people using Voi – 2nd person plural – instead of Lei. A third pronoun for polite speech is Ella – 3nd person singular, which is extremely posh and outdated, you would only hear it in a very formal situation. Greetings!