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"L'architetto è l'uomo con la camicia bianca."
Translation:The architect is the man with the white shirt.
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At regular speed, it sounds like "L'architetto è l'uomo colla camicia bianca." If I'm not mistaken, that combination of "con" and "la" can be found in older literature. Is it acceptable today?
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It has fallen out of use in the written language, but it can be still heard, since "cólla" is quicker to pronounce than "con la".
It sounds also like "The architect and the man in the white shirt." The sounds of "is" and "and" are so similar.
True, but context should tell you that the answer should be "is" because your example is not a complete sentence; there is no verb.
That is not a good measure, though, because there are plenty of lessons that are just noun phrases and not complete sentences.
im 3 years late, but I felt like it would make sense as a response to a question, if you think of it in that sense
also makes sense to say "the architect and the man with the white shirt" as part of a sentence and not a complete sentence
Because you're switching around what goes in the subject and what goes in the predicate.
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it is confusing, but this is why: https://www.google.com/search?q=camicia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQysaalsPpAhVTYDUKHbp0AwUQ_AUoAnoECA0QBA&biw=2123&bih=1281
The architect is the man with the white shirt. Singular nouns need an article in English.
