"He drinks the juice."

Translation: Lui beve il succo.

[didecarvalho]

Why the article for "succo" is "il" and for "squalo" is "lo"?

[Chris123456]

The grammatical rules are that "il" goes with most masculine singular nouns. "lo" is used with masculine nouns starting with z, s+consonant (not vowel as in succo) gn, pn, ps, x or y.

[JayNic2009]

Can you say 'lei beve succo'? Or do you have to say 'il succo'?

[katie.bug11]

When do you have to include lui and lei as opposed to just saying "Beve il succo"

[Rae.F]

In languages like Italian and Spanish, where the conjugation of the verb more often than not encodes person and number, it's quite common to just drop the pronoun entirely (hence the term "pro-drop language"). Generally, you only need to say the pronoun explicitly if there's any potential ambiguity (or if you want to specially emphasize it).

[Hector290697]

Same deal in Portuguese as well. Also, "succo" is "suco" in Portuguese. Same meaning. I LOVE my language family.

[ScienceMom]

It's not required since the conjugation of the verb tells you. Bevo = I drink. Bevi = you drink. The meanings are very specific.

[eddy401035]

I taught juice is succo

[Rae.F]

It is. That's the official answer on this page. What did it tell you it was?

[LonneyLouise]

It indicated that the answer was "spremuta" when I answered "succo"

[Robbadob]

Il succo yet la spremuta.

[Rae.F]

Yes. Duolingo is a little quirky when it comes to correcting mismatched articles. Instead of giving the appropriate article for the word, it suggests a word for the given article.

[Rae.F]

According to Google Translate, succo, spremuta, and sugo are all synonyms. Next time it marks you wrong for a correct answer, flag it.

[Sofia153746]

I got "Egli bevi il succo". I've never seen "egli" in place of "lui", etc.

[Robbadob]

It suggested that to you because you wrote bevi (tu form) instead of beve (lui/lei form). Sometimes the checker corrects the wrong word.

[AlinaC493542]

I find it a bit weird that on earlier exercises "Lei beve latte" was permitted and here "Lui beve succo" is wrong, is there a rule or is it a language quirk?

[margotlane2]

Succo OR succo di frutta, right????

[Robbadob]

That would specifically be fruit juice.

[mariadilor12]

The system should also read that "succo di frutta" is juice. Not just succo. It wouldn't sound right if I just said "succo" in Southern Italy

[CStrelick89]

Why is it it "lui beve" rather than Lui beva"?

[Rae.F]

Because "bere" is an -ere verb.

https://i.imgur.com/8atYu1Y.png

It's semi-irregular because the stem is "bev-", but it otherwise follows the -ere template.

[Sinax_Sinax]

Why here we say "il succo" not "lo succo" ?

[Rae.F]

Because it's a simple s, not an impure s or a consonant cluster.

[el_jb_spoutos]

Is "Beve succo" wrong in italian ? I inspire myself from spanish and feel like it should have been accepted.