"Un nipote è il figlio di tuo fratello o sorella."

Translation: A nephew is the son of your brother or sister.

[bilboburgler]

i hear "una" not "un"

[DaithiBC]

Definitely una on the slow play

[bilboburgler]

can you report it as an error please?

[DaithiBC]

I have done.

[cathy977476]

All of you get you're hearing checked!!!

[Teresinha]

Now - two years after - it is correct.

[MaryT625014]

Let it go pls

[andrewduo]

Me too, but oddly only on the slow play.

[april57]

Me too

[CheBoludo]

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.

[antsant]

Easily on the top ten list of the most silliest sentences.

[annamere]

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?

[BampaOwl]

Yes, why indeed?

[ron449068]

I also want to know

[giuliasasuke00]

sono italiana e questa frase non ha alcun senso..

[kaoru13236]

Perché?

[kevinmac200]

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.

[GuerraAmanda]

So, a nipote may be either nephew or grandchild?

[xyphax]

Si

http://www.wordreference.com/iten/nipote

[Jay53]

Yep, I 'corrected 'my first answer ('un nipote') to 'una' on hearing the slow soundtrack. It CLEARLY says 'una'.

[xyphax]

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!

[mahonrri]

she says unaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa fix that

[micahlarroque]

I just want to announce most of these recordings are horrible, but still... love duolingo.

[arekolek]

"il" figlio? I thought you don't use definite articles with singular family members

[clairelanc3]

Wouldn't it be more logical to say ...il figlio di tuo fratello o di tua sorella? Because you can't say "tuo sorella".

[ron449068]

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?

[Gabriel678117]

Well thats how it is, at least now

[lynnfhoffman]

that's una 'una' if ever i heard one

[bluelion04]

wud have been awkward if 'o' was replaced by 'e'

[Valosken]

It says "una"! I checked on slow!

[hud214]

that's also the way to say "A grandson is the son of your brother or sister" in Italian, though I don't believe Duolingo would accept it.

[lesliewilman]

Or, your wife's brother or sister.

[Jimmy580579]

Someone tell the Targaerians!

[MoltoMorto]

On tinycards they teach that "nipote" means "grandson"

[Erich_Von_Erich]

This sentence always gives me trouble.

[maryannjensen63]

Once again she said una not un. It said write what you hear not what is correct!!!!!

[JoolsStone]

still not corrected, have reported it

[vanescoo]

The nipote as 'grandson' wasn't accepted :c Is it incorrect or you have to fix this?

[sharkbbb]

Pay attention to the context: "nipote" can be "grandson", but not when he "is the son of your brother or sister".

[mollierose524]

as nipote is nephew or grandchild how can the answer be incorrect?

[JuergenZirak]

Well, technically it is both. A correct (possible) translation of an incorrect statement.

[waynebraganza]

¿un nipote è un (grandson or nephew)? ...soy hispano hablante

[hud214]

ambos

[SeanTravers]

I read "o" as "e" and thought we have a Jaime/Cersei situation on our hands.

[Ken708739]

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

[uxUGnTA1]

That is what i typed.??

[WilliamM.G]

Why not change up brother and sister in this sentence to challenge us on the use of tua versus tuo?

[Naseem200170]

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...

[JuergenZirak]

Is there a different word for "son of the brother/sister of my wife/husband"? Or is this also "nipote"?

[95qWWPdv]

Nephew is not a choice. Does this only happen to me?

[95qWWPdv]

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.

[peggy582366]

Really? Again?

[Zocco1]

Why is a niece wrong and nephew correct?

[ArchjSM]

Accidentally wrote "sister or brother" instead of "brother or sister", which evaluated as wrong. That's a bit harsh IMO.

[Marina799717]

it the same meaning with the grandchild?

[Georgi1488]

Very good sentence

[JPYhWt]

I wrote the right answer but it still tells me is wrong.

[phuvtuo]

a volte di tuo fratello e tua sorella

[JosephL.De]

Im having trouble typing the accent ` over the letter "e". I cant find the option on my Samsung snartphone keyboard. Any suggestions?

[Laylamahdi]

I wrote it right but the app considered wrong

[Ashwini596875]

This so hard and because of this one I lost my streak.

[rob244586]

Aaargh!! Translated the audio to English then back to Italian! A good sign, but stupid stupid stupid. Got it right however.

[AdamPurcell]

How do you say nipple in italian?

[marc.libra]

You hear una yes, but from the rest of the sentence you can conclude it has to be un instead of una :-) So no excuses if u have this wrong ;)