"The clothing"
Translation:L'abbigliamento
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I agree - in English "clothing" tends to refer to more than one item, otherwise you'd say "an item of clothing".
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I think it's a collective noun. If so, then just as you don't say sheeps, I guess you wouldn't say gli abbigliamenti.
I don't think "sheep" is a collective noun. The singular and the plural just happen to be homonyms, but they're still singular and plural.
I think a better example is "people". You don't usually say "peoples" unless you mean it in the sense of "nations" or "races".
But I think you're correct about "gli abbigliamenti".
Sheep is a singular or collective noun I have lost my sheep (one) I have lost my sheep ( many) and No, I am not Little Bopeep :)
Abbigliamento - Is it used much in Italy or is there a shorter/more common word?
in a different lesson we learned i vestiti... and duolingo even accepted that as my answer here... but I'm not sure if there is a subtle difference between both that I'm missing....
They're pretty much synonymous but "clothes" tends to refer to a specific set of recogniseable clothes (e.g. "I have a lot of clothes in my wardrobe" or "I like shopping for clothes") whereas "clothing" is a more general term for any body covering (e.g. "cavemen didn't wear clothing" or "most clothing is made from fabric"). It's very subtle though, and as a native speaker it's hard for me to clearly explain the difference!
The difference may vary by region, but for me (native speaker of American English), clothing refers to the concept and clothes to specific items. I have clothes in my closet, but the industry responsible for creating them is the clothing industry. It would sound weird to compliment (or insult) my outfit by calling it my “clothing”; I would probably assume anyone who did that was a non-native speaker. It’s subtle - you could refer to my taste in clothing.
I think of it as similar to one of the the differences between “sport(s)” and “game”. You don’t say “I’m going to the sport on Saturday.”
Good job trying to explain As a native speaker,I wasnt coming up with a good answer
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sorry I disagree with this. I'm English and most people I know would say clothes in both your examples. There is no difference -they are synonymous
Not always justvdress.. Ive seen it used as clothing soI dont know the subtle difference..if there is one
If I'm not wrong, in clothing stores you'll see sections of abbigliamento donna and abbigliamento uomo.
I'm currently living here and that the most common word I've seen for clothing stores.
Why is it "l'abbigliamento" rather than "il abbigliamento"? Does the word's male gender matter?
The gender matters, but it is not visible in this particular case since "la" and "il" both turn into "l'" before a vowel.
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Because it's technically "Lo abbiglamento". A masculine noun that begins with a vowel always takes the article "lo". But it gets shortened. Lo animale --> L'animale Lo orologio --> L'orologio Lo uomo --> L'uomo And "lo" becomes "gli" for plural. Gli animali Gli orologi Gli uomini
The first lesson of clothing doesn't teach the words first, it already starts off asking for the translation. I never had contact with these words before, so am I supposed to fail to see the right words?
Why are typos taken into account sometimes and other times they're not? Doesn't seem consistent.
If there is only 1 typo... It is accepted... And not accepted if more than 1
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it depends on the number of typos or if the typo is a really word in its own right. 'cappello vs capello'
Is 'gli vestiti' wrong? If so, why? I put that as the answer and it corrected to 'i vestiti', so I'm not really sure what the difference is between those two.
gli is used for (plural, masculine) nouns that start with a vowel or with z or with s+consonant (eg - gli uomini, gli stivali). i is used for other masc plural nouns (eg - i vestiti, i ragazzi)
Oltre abbigliamento si può dire vestiario con lo stesso significato forse la parola è meno chic
"Il vestiario" dovrebbe essere accettato, è sinonimo di abbigliamento (2020.08.27)
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Because, Simo735728, we never use a contraction of the plural article. And in the case of abiti, the plural article is gli, as Ikkus wrote about.
because it doesn't mean "clothing"? It's closer to "stuff" or perhaps "kit" in the UK sense - it's more general than clothes.
(r)abbi (u)gli amen to...rabbi says ugly amen to...well, i just thougt it up for you! :D i don't mean to offend any rabbi, it is only a little stupid aid...as we know that we usually remember mainly crazy stuff!
How is it plural?
In English, "clothing" is an uncountable noun; you can't have "a clothing" or "two clothings", just "some clothing". Semantically, it's neither singular nor plural, but syntactically, it is singular: you say "the clothing is", not *"the clothing are". The same is true of Italian `abbigliamento'.
In English we can also say "clothes", which is also uncountable: you can't have "a clothe" or "two clothes", just "some clothes". This word is semantically neither singular nor plural, but unlike clothing, it's syntactically plural: "the clothing is" vs "the clothes are". Italian "i vestiti" works much the same way; the difference is that "vestiti" is also the regular plural of "il vestito", the dress.
I wrote l'abbigliamento & the comment was the correct answer is l'abbligliamento. I am confused
It at least used to be accepted with the article... did you include it? "THE clothing" -> "i vestiti"
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if you know that something is acceptable but it isn't accepted when you used it; you made another mistake.
I wrote the SAME THING 3 times. l'abiggliamento. Why was it wrong the first 2 times?
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A native Italian may know better but as a matter of interest I entered the following into a translator I have. L'abbiggliamento = glazing L'abiggliamento = lighting up L'abbigliamento = clothing That might be why you got marked wrong twice.
Why L' and not il? Clothing is like vegetables.. still counted single as one of something
I wrote it as L'abbig..... because il abbig..was counted wrong but I still think its il abbig....
Hate getting it wrong because the spelling is difficult/I made a typo but I KNOW the word.
I dont understand! Is abbigliamento masculine or feminine? It ends with o.
It’s masculine. Words starting with a vowel always get «l’,» regardless of gender. (For masculine nouns it’s short for «lo», which also shows up unabbreviated in front of masculine words starting with a consonant cluster. There’s more to masculine singular than just «il »!)