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- "The clothing"
"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".
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!
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
I guess some nouns, like "abbigliamento", are collective and have special rules.
Similarly, in English, "people" is (approximately) equivalent to "persons", but one is singular and one is plural.
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'
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.
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)
I wrote l'abbigliamento & the comment was the correct answer is l'abbligliamento. I am confused
Oltre abbigliamento si può dire vestiario con lo stesso significato forse la parola è meno chic
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.
"Il vestiario" dovrebbe essere accettato, è sinonimo di abbigliamento (2020.08.27)
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Really DuoLingo?!?! Are you really gonna screw me out of a heart because I misspelled it with one B instead of two?!?!
It's not universally true, but the vast majority of words ending in -o are masculine.
I answered "i vestidi," accidentally misspelling "vestiTi," then proceeded to say, "You have a typo." The answer Duolingo provided was l'abbigliamento, as if it thought that was what I was trying to type. Not exactly a big deal, but still should be an issue to be looked in to.
I wonder why "vestito" is not accepted (with the exception of its plural form).
Last time when I said L'abbigliamento it told me I could also say "Il vestito" and when I did it said it was wrong. The hell Duolingo?
