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- "I have the car."
"I have the car."
Translation:Ho l'automobile.
June 26, 2013
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C'ho, c'hai, c'ha and so on are considered slang forms (they actually go against Italian rules, which allow ci to be elided only before i and e), and although widely used, "ciò (che non è ci + ho...) non vuol dire che tali usi siano ammissibili o tanto meno consigliabili nella prosa sorvegliata e negli usi standard dello scritto" (quote from http://www.treccani.it/magazine/lingua_italiana/domande_e_risposte/grammatica/grammatica_060.html that contains a grammarian's opinion). In other words, it's substandard Italian and you should avoid it outside colloquial contexts.
P.S. The political situation is much worse in the rest of Italy...