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"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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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.
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Pay attention to the context: "nipote" can be "grandson", but not when he "is the son of your brother or sister".
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
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Im having trouble typing the accent ` over the letter "e". I cant find the option on my Samsung snartphone keyboard. Any suggestions?
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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 ;)