"Why do you hit your brother?"

Translation: Perché colpisci tuo fratello?

[juliahyatt]

why does it say that perché colpischi il tuo fratello is wrong? is the il not used when talking about family or something?

[crazy4hazy]

That's exactly what it is. When talking about family members, including spouses, the definite articles (il, la, etc) are omitted - but ONLY IN THE SINGULAR FORM (what fun!). So, mio fratello / mia zia... but i miei fratelli / le mie zie... ;)

[cwrose01]

Grazie!

[MajesticOcean]

Sì, grazie!

[alanparole]

colpisci, non e colpischi

[Overlordspam]

Ciao tutti!

Perche batti tuo fratello? Could this be accepted?

I ask due to "Batti il ferro finché è caldo" - "Hit the iron while it is hot"...

[GennaroRug]

not really. battere means 1) defeat/beat someone else in a race. 2) beat referring to objects. for persons you need to use colpire o picchiare

[Overlordspam]

Grazie!

[Zoe145821]

He did it!

[MarjieW]

Why is 'vostro fratello' wrong?

[el__lobo]

colpisci tuo fratello, oppure colpite vostro fratello

[travel.linguist]

It's ambigous though when translating from English to Italian.

[Krisbaudi]

Is " IL tuo fratello" totally wrong?

[dkbooth88]

I'm not an expert but I don't think you use "il" and "la" for immediate family members. Doubt it's a big deal if you do though.

[Krisbaudi]

Thank you :-)

[Jenniferhakes]

It says my singular "tu" conjugation is wrong and says "voi" is required...??

[Sedona2007]

It would help if you wrote out your entire answer in order for someone on the discussion board to try to help you.

[AndrHeyns]

But a few phrases earlier DL allowed " I genitori crescono il loro figlio"
figlio is not plural