"La sua gonna"
Translation:His skirt
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Good to see Duolingo also accepts his skirt as an answer here for all those guys who wear skirts... :-)
yes! I just tried "his skirt" to see what happens, and I was really glad to see it was accepted as correct. :) and it's not just Scottish men and ballroom dance teachers. anyone can wear skirts if they want to. :)
I immediately thought the answer was 'His skirt' then when I realized it also could've been 'her skirt' I was happy that 'His Skirt' was accepted.
Agree. It is definitely being pronounced with a B. Both it regular speed and slow speed.
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Some of these new voices are terrible. There is a deep smoky male voice, a loud screaming male voice and screetchy female voice. All these voices work exceptionally badky when one hears them on a mobile phone. For example the smoky voice now apparently said "La sua gonna". i lustened twice with the slower version too and failed to understand "gonna" . It sounded like "buona" which of course made no sense. It would be so helpful if someone at Duolingo would only think of the practical consequences of some of their decisions...
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Totally agree. The new voices are very bad. I can't understand what they are saying. Thankfully I've been learning Italian for a while so enough knowledge now to know that what i think i hear is wrong.
I didn't for one second think of a man possibly wearing the skirt, but heck I'm off to the shops!
"La sua" is used here because the item it is referring to (in this case "la gonna" = "the skirt") is a feminine noun, it doesn't have any relation to the gender of whoever is "doing the possessing". It could equally be "la sua macchina" ("his/her car") or "la sua chitarra" ("her/his guitar") than a "stereotypically feminine" object like a skirt. Equally, "il suo vestito" doesn't indicate the gender of whoever has the dress.
Italian is different than English in this way: English requires the possessor's gender to be specified ("her flute", "his boat") but not that of the possession, while in Italian the opposite is true ("il suo flauto", "la sua barca").
I think so. But I also think I read on another discussion page that the Sua is (can be? must be?) capitalized for it to mean "formal your." If that's a rule, I'm not sure how strict it is. Maybe you know for sure by now?
listened 10 times, she is saying bonna with b, without a doubt. I mean is it possible that a pronunciation of "g" could sound like b? Am I going deaf?
