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"I do not work with certain people."
Translation:Non lavoro con certa gente.
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Yes "gente" is singular in Italian, therefore certa.
Another way to translate this sentence is : "Non lavoro con certe persone"
I wrote "con certa gente io non lavoro" and it marked me wrong -- did i miss something or is that an acceptable translation?
It looks fine to me. Report it. Elsewhere in this module they use "con certa gente non lavoro". I can't believe that the inclusion of a subject pronoun would make the sentence incorrect.
I put certe instead of certa which I now understand was wrong but I put 'Con cert(a) gente first as it was in the previous sentence to be translated into English yet the only correct sentence was given as 'Non lavoro.... Surely my only mistake was to put the wrong ending on certa?
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the problem isn't with the pronoun but with placement. I believe duo would accept it if you put it at the end of the sentence. "con certa gente non lavoro io."
No, that means "a certain person". Another acceptable translation would be "certe persone".
So Italian is the same with certain meaning both "sure" and "specific" ?
Why does 'certa' (adjective) precede 'gente'. I do not work with angry people would be Non lavoro con gente arrabbiata.
So "certa" is the adjective that must correspond with the noun it affects, which is "gente". But why "certa"? Isn't "gente" masculine?
when do you us "col" instead of "con". in all the other sentences, duo was using col and when I put it for this one, it marked it wrong and said i needed to use "con"
col = con + il(masculine article, the)
In our case persona/gente are both feminine so they use the article "la"
Why, oh why, do they insist on people being singular. Surely people are not on person THEY are several or many! Should be “certe gente “
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We have this in English too. You brush your hair not your hairs. Obviously you don't have only one hair.
Gente is singular in the same sense as population is singular. It refers to "multiple people as a whole." Another English similie is "group." A group of people is a singular whole.
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How can it be that I am marked wrong for putting 'con' then when I try later with 'col' am told it should be 'con'?
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Because it's la gente. I got it wrong too. I thought it was certo gente because I thought gente was masculine.
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You should be able to use either certa gente or certe persone. See dnovinc's post above 5 years ago.
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why is this prase diifernt from the last time it came up when it was "con certe gente non lavoro"
Does the word order matter for 1 over the other, last lesson was "con certe persone non lavoro", so, can it also be "non lavoro con certe persone", or conversely, "con certo gente non lavoro"? Hope that makes sense.....
