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- "They are my suits."
"They are my suits."
Translation:Sono i miei abiti.
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Why can't you say "loro sono i miei abiti"? And when do you use "essi" as is suggested in the correct solutions?
Esso/essa (plural essi) would be "it" in Italian; it's rather formal, and using a pronoun for a person feels weird, so when referring to objects the subject pronoun is almost always omitted.
You're probably thinking of "esto", the current form in Spanish and an archaic one in Italian (Dante uses it); in modern Italian "this" is "questo" or "sto" (the latter colloquial except in some idioms).
Yeap, but this lesson could also be answered correct without the word "essi", like "Sono i miei abiti". The fact Duolingo shows us another answer doesn't mean that it should had taught us that answer first.
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Would it be OK to use 'vestito' for 'suit'? It is given in the dictionary, but maybe that's a different kind of suit?
Ok; but it said "loro" or "essi" when i peeked the translation for "they"...!? Why cant "loro" be used also???
Ok in l'uomo " the " in the plural form turns to " gli " so why doesnt l'abito turn into " gli abiti " ?
It would, but here there's the possessive between the two words: the choice of the article depends on the following letters, regardless of which word they belong to.
"Loro is reserved for people"-sorry,but it's not so because in Italy say:I LORO vestiti/no gli essi vestiti/;the form:/essa;esso;essi/is not used hardly ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In your example loro is a possessive pronoun (their) and it still refers to people ;)
Esso and derivatives are used quite a lot in formal contexts, so you'll find them in newspaper articles, political speeches, textbooks, and so on; the '88 movie "They Live" was translated as "Essi vivono" because the subject wasn't human. On the other hand they've pretty much disappeared in informal contexts, so you aren't likely to find them in blogs, modern novels or in everyday speech.
Tuta is used for work clothes or sport suits; including a camouflaging suit (tuta mimetica) or a space suit (tuta spaziale). Abito usually refers to business or formal suits.
This was a year ago so you might already know, but to my knowledge, you use the 'the' article when talking about non-family possessives. So you'd say 'the my shirt' but not 'the my mother'.
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Seems like a reasonable question so I just did a search on Duolingo for 'costume' and found that Shetuti said "Costume in general means a certain type of clothing (tipo di abbigliamento). Normally we use abito for very specific occasions, like those who are common or typical in religious ceremonies (wedding, baptism), for the clerical robe (vestment/habit) or in related idiomatic expressions. I prefer to use completo for men and tailleur for women. Depending of the context of course, but costume rather means swimsuit (you can add da bagno to disambiguate), traditional ethnic wear (folk costumes) or disguise (at a masquerade for example). My mother tongue is italian "
Vestito can be either a woman's dress or a man's suit. Duo would not accept "vestiti"
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About 3 minutes ago I was given a picture, "the suit." I wrote "l'abito" which was marked wrong in favor of "il vestito." Suddenly "abito" is in favor again! Would "vestito" be wrong here? If so, can someone explain this? Thanks!
