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- "I do not have his shirt."
"I do not have his shirt."
Translation:Io non ho la sua maglia.
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Not clear to me either. The "Io" is understood in that formulation, I would think.
My Italian friend tells me that the word "camicia" is used to refer to "a shirt". The word "maglione/ maglia" he uses to refer to a "sweater".
yes, maglia is accepted as sweater (or jumper in British English - they accept that as well)
I think una maglia is a general term for a top, whereas una camicia is more specific for a formal shirt.
Maglia is for a long sleeve shirt (usually casual), magliatta is for a t shirt
Still both are a shirt. Hiw can we know from this sentence, which one. Both should be accepted
How is it "la sua" if it translates to "his" ? Shouldn't it be il suo camicia?
In Italian only the context will tell you if it is 'his' or 'her' camicia. "La sua camicia" can mean "his shirt" or "her shirt", like "il suo libro" can mean both "his book" and "her book".
I was just as confused. I jumped straight on Google Translate only to have it confirm Duolingo... It's so strange how the Italian dialect has masculine and feminine words and possessives, yet 'HIS' shirt and 'HER' shirt are both "la sua". It's going to take me a while to wrap my head around this.
In English the possesive pronoun agrees in gender with the subject, the possessor - "his" or "her", regardless of what the thing possessed is. (In English, inanimate objects do not have grammatical gender) In Italian the possessive pronoun agrees in gender with the object, the thing possessed - "suo" or "sua", regardless of the gender of the subject doing the possessing. It is a difference in how the languages work.
It's "la sua" (feminine) because it refers to LA camicia, which is also feminine :)
Im confused sweater is maglia shirt is camicia think it a bug in the program. It wouldn't take camicia today 08/09/16
Why aren't both "la sua maglia" and "sua maglia" accepted? Is "la" really necessary?
you taught us that la camicia /camicie is shirts and that un maglione is a sweater or a pull over - so in the sentence io non ho la sua maglia - you write i do not have his shirt...instead of his pullover. also HIS is suo and not SUA ! also when saying goodbye I wrote arrivederci and you marked it wrong and said it is ciao.. Who is in charge of this course..? so many mistakes! Never had this in your Polish, and Spanish course !
I thought maglia was a sweater not a shirt. So the only other possibility would have been lana???? A guess because I can't remember what lana (wool???) is.
I don't get it! I translated shirt as camicie, because more than once before, I had to translate them the opposite way around (from Italian into English), where it said camicie, and I said shirt for that. It was said to be correct, but when I translate from English into Italian shirt as camicie, it is suddenly wrong, and only maglia is accepted. What's with this system?
Again with the 'la camicia' versus 'la maglia'. For goodness sake! Both are "the shirt" and there is no way from context to tell which one is intended.
You are absolutely correct. Some people put camicie this is wrong because it is plural. Also how can you confuse a t-shirt with a sweater? This may be easy for Americans, they confuse Donald Trump with being a President.
Am sure somebody can shed some light on this but what exactly is a maglia, we have an italian word for a 'top' a 'sweater' and a 'jersey' so how coe as the lesson progresses we get rid of camicia and are now stuck on calling it a malia, for example what would you call a soccer top in italian?
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Good question, Gituma. Both Google Translate (GT) and Bing Translator say maglia means "mesh", so I'm guessing something like an athletic jersey (which is also mentioned on GT). To me, a shirt is something I would wear to work, so it's una camicia. Fortunately, both are accepted in this exercise.
no, they aren't! Only maglia is accepted. I just tried it now, and said camicia, and was told I got it wrong, that it is maglia. Strange!!!
Having looked through various comments on this, it would appear that camicia should also be accepted as a correct answer as Duolingo makes no reference to a specific shirt, looking back through lessons, maglia would appear to be associated with a t-shirt. Using “shirt” is just too broad a term to deem camicia the won’t word. Up the ante duolingo and be clearer about items you want translated and be broader in your own vocabulary knowledge when it comes to items such as pants. In the UK these are undergarments, we call them(pants) trousers, be worldly wise and allow both
It's ridiculous that "maglia" and "camicha" are often used as suggestions for one another AND marked as incorrect when the one that was not expected was given.
So if I just saw it in Italian, how do I know if it's a girl( her) or boy(his)?
Both "non ho la sua maglia" and "io non ho la sua maglia" shoud be accepted. If the answer "non ho la sua maglia" is not accepted, it's Duolingo mistake. Not ours. I wonder, why they don't correct it for so long?
Because there is no mistake. If the report I see is yours, you wrote "no ho la sua maglia".
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There's actually no distinction between his/hers. The gender here refers to the object not the subject.
you said 'gender here refers to the object not the subject - this is a chapter about possession and if it is HER bag Or HIS bag it still matter ! This course is full of mistakes. Try to fix them !
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Yes I did say that, because it is true. I'm just another user like you, so I can't fix "mistakes" but the only mistake here is in your comprehension. It's still about possession, but not all languages care what's between your legs while you are possessing something. Someone can possess something without their gender being specified. Perhaps this will help: https://www.theitalianexperiment.com/learn-italian/possessive-adjectives
sorry camicie is accepted, i was marked wrong because i left out io in my answer
It should specify in English that it meant t- shirt not shirt. I find there are a lot of faults with the english/American grammar and it costs me hearts! I'm learning Italian not American!
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"Non ho la sua maglia" was rejected, so seems it's the missing "Io" that's causing the rejection.
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same here, and it seems strange as in other similar cases it is perfectly accepted without "Io"
