"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.
Ok; but it said "loro" or "essi" when i peeked the translation for "they"...!? Why cant "loro" be used also???
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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 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.
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.
"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.
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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!
You are right, Duo is wrong here. The same just happened to me (Sept 2021)
Vestito can be either a woman's dress or a man's suit. Duo would not accept "vestiti"
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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According to f.formica way above ..... "When referring to objects the subject pronoun is almost always omitted"
f.formica refers to the subject of the sentence. This issue is about a possessor.
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Seems like a reasonable question so I just did a search on Duolingo for 'costume' and found that Shetuti said all of the following - "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 "
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According to f.formica way above - when referring to objects the subject pronoun is almost always omitted.
But this is not "loro" omitted here. Loro cannot be used for objects.
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Someone else initially asked this question, albeit eight years ago, so I've pasted the given answer below for ease of your reference but you should be able to see the complete question and subsequent answer from f.formica at the the very top of this discussion - "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". The subject pronoun being referred to within his answer is 'loro' .... I hope this helps :-)
My correct solution did not include anything about esso//essa. It just marked me wrong for loro sono i miei abiti. Why does it have to be just sono i miei abiti?
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