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"A man"
Translation:Un uomo
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It would have been nice to know that "man" was uomo, not l'uomo. I had assumed, due to the practice, that "l'uomo" was Man, not The Man
una, is used only for feminine nouns such as donna and ragazza, while un is used for masculine nouns like uomo and raggazzo. Generally if a noun ends with i or o, it is masculine and if it ends with a or e it is feminine but there are some exceptions
"la" and "un" fall into different classes of words. "la" is a definite article. That is, it generally refers to a specific thing, and is equivalent to "the" in English. For example "the pen" . "un" is an indefinite article. It refers to a non-specific single instance of a thing, and is equivalent to "a" or "an" in English. For example, "a pen".
l'uomo is 'the man", but the test ask about 'a man", so the right answer is 'un uomo"
Could someone explain to me why the answer is "un uomo" instead of "un'uomo"? I thought that "un'" was supposed to precede a noun beginning with a vowel, just as "l'" does in such instances as "l'acqua" in the basic lessons?
from what i know, the ' only used with D and L. I dunno if there's other letters tho.
Why we say un uomo and not uno uomo? The question has to do with, for examble, the toro, we say un toro which not begins with a vouel, but is also un and not uno.
Thanks Kle
