"La ragazza mangia i propri panini."
Translation:The girl eats her own sandwiches.
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I've only just seen it, but judging by the "own" I'm guessing its a way of strongly associating the sandwich as being the girl's. If Suoi ("his" or "her") was used, it would be ambiguous whether it was the girl eating her own sandwich or someone else's of the same or maybe the opposite sex. Propri says that its definitely hers. Hope this helps!
1582
The sentence is not about one sandwich but sandwiches, more than one, plural. That was your mistake.
1467
Came out of nowhere for me too! If I don't know a word, I just type any old thing just to find out what it really is.
356
The girl eats her sandwich should have been accepted. I am being told that the english translation for panini is supposed to be panini.
One of the translations I got (in the sentence, not the hints) for "panini" is ... panini! In the US, a panini refers to a very specific type of sandwich wherein some sort of filling is put inside some sort of bread then pressed or grilled or otherwise heated so that the exterior is crunchy. The impression I got is that the Italian word refers to the generic sandwich, not this very specific type of sandwich.
Can anyone clarify?
http://parliamoitaliano.altervista.org/suo-proprio-e-altrui/
here is a site that can help but each of you has to translate it on his own language because i am greek and i do not want to make any mistakes by explaining it!
Italian possessive adjectives agree in gender (masculine/feminine) and in number (singular/plural) with the noun they refer to. For instance, "horse" is a masculine noun, (regardless of the gender of the actual horse in question) so it uses the masculine mio and miei.
Source: https://www.theitalianexperiment.com/learn-italian/possessive-adjectives
1582
"is eating" and "eats" should both be accepted. How did you translate the remaining part of the sentence?
973
When I first learned the plural of il panino( i panini) I rembered it with a made up song title, " the girl from i panini"!
973
When you are translating a sentence with "own" in it, you are translating a sentence with a possessive in it, so in this case it would be" il proprio panino"; if it was "her sandwich" that is not possessive, so it would be " il suo panino"!