"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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this might be the best sentence i've seen on duolingo as far as helping teach with context clues and words we already know.
bravo, duolingo, bravo.
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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.
Wouldn't it be more logical to say ...il figlio di tuo fratello o di tua sorella? Because you can't say "tuo sorella".
Seems like maybe that would be true. But we make common mistakes like that in english too sometimes so maybe its just the way people would often say it but not exactly correct?
When we had the same sentence the other way round (translating into Italian) we had to put "di tua" before "sorella" or it was marked incorrect, yet here, we are given the Italian sentence without "di tua" before "sorella". It seems odd.
Yep, I 'corrected 'my first answer ('un nipote') to 'una' on hearing the slow soundtrack. It CLEARLY says 'una'.
That has happened to me numerous times! I have reported it numerous times!
It is occurs in just about every sentence, and always on slow playback only.
duoLingo, per favore ... !! I'd give ten lingots for a fix!
I just want to announce most of these recordings are horrible, but still... love duolingo.
"il" figlio? I thought you don't use definite articles with singular family members
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
Once again she said una not un. It said write what you hear not what is correct!!!!!
I read "o" as "e" and thought we have a Jaime/Cersei situation on our hands.
Why not change up brother and sister in this sentence to challenge us on the use of tua versus tuo?
So is the rule if you have either or -- you use the gender of the first world? Tuo fratello o sorely, versus Two fratellos o tua sorely...
Is there a different word for "son of the brother/sister of my wife/husband"? Or is this also "nipote"?
No article offered. That's the third time today that the correct answer isn't offered. What do you do in a case like that I just left it our so of course it was wrong.
Accidentally wrote "sister or brother" instead of "brother or sister", which evaluated as wrong. That's a bit harsh IMO.
Im having trouble typing the accent ` over the letter "e". I cant find the option on my Samsung snartphone keyboard. Any suggestions?
Aaargh!! Translated the audio to English then back to Italian! A good sign, but stupid stupid stupid. Got it right however.
As you are addressing your fellow learners here, you need to tell us exactly what your answer was. Without knowing that, we have no way of commenting helpfully, either by agreeing that your answer was correct, or pointing out something which caused it to be incorrect.
Do you mean that "the son of your brother or sister" is one definition of "nephew"? What other definition is there?
That's true, but only because the in-law is married to your brother or sister.
I can never hear this sentence properly, especially when slowed down.