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- "La donna ha i maglioni."
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I just wrote "sweater" for a previous use of maglione, and it gave as an alternate, "shirt". Now I use "shirt" and get it wrong. Am I missing something?
I wrote jumpers, and got it wrong. The word means sweater and jumpers, therefore i should be marked correct.
Flag it and suggest it, then. The Duo team focuses on American English, and "jumper" means something very different in American English.
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Just noticed this too. Shirts singular becomes sweaters, plural? I feel like that must be wrong.
La signora means the lady. Donna is woman. It may be a subtle distinction, but it is one many women cherish.
I think it should be accepted, but still I just checked in a dictionary and:
- maglione = sweater (in a different dictionary it also can mean pullover)
- pullover = pullover
So yeah I'm also a bit confused
My dictionary says pullover is "maglia dolcevita" :) And "maglione" is thick clothing made of wool - sweater.
Sweater/s Il maglione I maglioni
Jersey/s La maglia Le maglie
Shirt/s La camicia Le camicie
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I can't believe what you are doing Duolingo? How Come it is now sweater and it was shirt for several times and when I tought it was sweater you said it was wrong
it sounds like she's saying la donna i maglioni. I only put 'ha' there because context clues.
I put the women has the sweaters and it said it was incorrect and that the correct answer was "the women has the sweaters"
The correct answer is "The womAn has the sweaters". You wrote "The womEn has the sweaters".
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Duo keeps confusing maglia and camisa. Sometimes duo insists one is a shirt and the other a sweater and other times it is reversed. As in 'il cuoco ha la sua maglia' the cook has her sweater is the duo answer. Having grown up in an italian family... Una camisa is a shirt Una camisetta is a t-shirt Una maglia is a sweater Grr!
Then you probably didn't write it correctly. From now on, please include the full text of your actual answer so we can help you see what happened.
I had to say this sentence and half the words weren't recorded but I know I said them
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The sentence is: La donna ha i maglioni In the fast version it was not clearly for me and in the slow version I hear: La donna ha i maglione instead of "i maglioni"
"Ho" means has and "ha" means have, so why does "ha" mean has in this case? Is there a specific rule because I can't recall any...
You have it a bit confused.
AVERE |
TO HAVE |
|---|---|
| io ho | I have |
| tu hai | you have (s) |
| lui/lei ha | he/she has |
| noi abbiamo | we have |
| voi avete | you have (pl) |
| loro hanno | they have |
ha means... she HAS... so the sentence is saying... The woman, she has the sweaters. This is not unusual for Italian-speech pattern. That's why when they learn English, often they cling to this model and use the additional prounouns in sentences. (Even though Americans leave it out... we just say... The woman has the sweaters. Not... the woman - she has.....
