"They drink wine."
Translation:Loro bevono il vino.
18 Comments
If the sentence is 'they drink wine' wasn't supposed to be 'bevono vino' insted of 'bevono il vino' ? the article in the english sentence isn't there...
Sometimes that happens. You don't always get a word in one language for every word in the other.
1892
Italian is almost the opposite of English when it comes to that sort of thing. In English, to indicate a generic situation you omit the definite article, but in Italian you include it.
- 1892
| BERE | ||
|---|---|---|
| io | bev- | o |
| tu | bev- | i |
| lui/lei | bev- | e |
| noi | bev- | iamo |
| voi | bev- | ete |
| loro | bev- | ono |
Options duolingo gave: il, bevono, vino, arancia. Answer: bevono vino. "Another solution": Loro bevono il vino. Do I need a cheat to unlock the hidden word?
What's the difference between "essi" and "loro"? I confused english plural you and they so I did "voi" which is obviously wrong, but it corrected as "essi" and not as "loro".
- 1892
I'm not an expert or fluent in Italian, but I think egli and essi are archaic/literary/poetic forms. (I think they're also used in highly formal legal documents.)
So my final question is; when faced with an italian sentence where il/la is present, the translation should always contain "the" article? While in cases where the sentence is simply: "Loro bevono vino" it can be translated as either "They drink wine" or "They drink the wine"? But both are correct?
- 1892
Italian is almost the opposite of English when it comes to that sort of thing. In English, to indicate a generic situation you omit the definite article, but in Italian you include it.
