"Un nipote è il figlio di tuo fratello o sorella."
Translation:A nephew is the son of your brother or sister.
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Non si puo dire un nipote (genericamente) e' il figlio.....o dici il nipote e il figlio o dici il nipote e' figlio di .....
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Actually, it looks like "una", but it isn't. It's "un" with some accent, but "una" has a stronger "a"
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Why is it not 'tuo fratello o tua sorella'? I thought that like in French or German the article has to agree with the gender of the noun?
Duolingo rocks but to be as good as it could be, in Italian they absolutely need to take a different approach to the production of audio on entire sentences as the combination of single and/or double syllables to construct entire sentences can make for a great deal of frustration in learning and skews it more often than it helps.
I play my own game.... if I can write the translation from hearing it once fast I score 5 points... twice 4 points etc... until once slowly scores 1 point and getting it wrong no points. When the 'il' (as in 'il tuo fratello') is so lost in everyday conversation I sometimes feel like giving up... or not asking about a person 's relatives