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Also remember that 'casa mia' is used by Italians to mean 'my home' or just 'home', as opposed to 'la mia casa' which means 'my house'.
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The expression is beautiful and intimate, like in old English.
"You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, " William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Used attributively after the noun it modifies. Quote, from Wiktionary on 'mine'.
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Prospero is addressing a brother who seized his power and tried to kill him & his daughter. While the tone is forgiving, it is also an admonishment.
So the correct translation should be "...from my home". Yet this is marked wrong!
"I see castles from my home" and "I see castles from home" are not accepted;
"I see the castles from my home" is accepted.
29/09/2020
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Neither is "I can see castles from my house." "I see... and I can see...." I don't see the difference.
Hi, da casa mia is an idiomatic expression, and is another one of those phrases to memorize. Hope this helps!
the comment underneath, doesn't state that dalla is from the so it's like saying,"From the my house", doesn't make sense right?
Sure, except in Italian, "la mia" and "il mio" can mean "my" without a definite article.
Why is it that sometimes in the translations i castelli = castles and sometimes translated the castles? I have seen this several times throughout the program. Is there a rhyme or reason as to why you would leave out the article in the translation?
The definite article is used a little differently in the two languages. In Italian it can be used to indicate a general category but in English no article is used to communicate the same thing. These sentences usually have no context, so it is often up to you whether to use the definite article or not :)
I was given the Italian and asked to translate into English, and "I see castles from my house" (no article) was marked as incorrect. I believe that should have been okay, right?
I agree - it's normal English. The sentence before this (for me) allowed "we can see the castle from the roof" just for "vediamo". This is inconsistent if nothing else!
I see castles from my house. Is just as good. Italians do seem to the the around a bit more than the British.
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In the introduction/notes it said that castelli can also be translated at buildings but DL didn't accept it.
I'm happy with my translation of "I see castles from my house", Duolingo isn't. Moan over.
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"I see castles" is poor English, it would be more correct to say "I can see castles". Obviously where translating into Italian "can" should not be translated.
Why not dalla mia casa?
Why da casa mia?
That sounds awfully incorrect to me.
is there such a thing as "Gli castelli" or not, can somebody explain why not?
No Gli castelli but i castelli. Gli goes before vowels and I think s + consonants, gn, pn, x, z and dei......gli uomini, gli ingegneri, gli scuoli, gli specchi, gli dei, gli gnocchi, gli pneumoniminini, gli xerxi, gli zoo, gli zii or something like that.
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Well picked up. It is corrections like this that reinforce the importance of gender. "scuola" is a definite feminine word. Thanks.
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gli before plural masculine Words beginning with one of the following: a vowel, s + [consotant], gn, mn, pn, ps, x, and z. Sometimes before y as in lo Yoghurt.
I emphasize Words because the article can change, depending on word placement, particularly of adjectives, e.g.,, il pianoforte - lo stesso pianoforte.
Note that it's the sound that is determinative, so there are some rare nuances which don't warrant close attention now. Generally, in some words borrowed from foreign languages, the sound may make gli applicable: lo chef/gli chef (Observe no change to chef in plural form.)
For masculine singular words with these beginnings, use lo and uno, except before vowels, where lo becomes l' and uno becomes un (without an apostrophe!).
Irregular noun: Il dio ("the god") has the irregular plural gli dei
I see castles from my house. Seriously won't give it to me because of "the".
the audio keeps going off at this point in the lesson. Can you please correct this. I like to hear the sentences spoken in Italian
The use of articles seems arbitrary. Why is: "I see castles" not acceptable? DL says it should be "THE castles"
OK, depending on who grades this statement, there is a discrepancy on wheather one says I see, or I can see! Also, either my house, or my home! Which is it?!
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I always think of Sarah Palin & Tina Fey saying, "I can see Russia from my house." :)
I had just read the Tips on my phone before this exercise, and it said that castelli can mean "castles" OR "buildings." Is there any reason why "I see the buildings from my house" should have been marked as incorrect?
This is the second answer which is marked wrong and it is exactly the same as duolingo’s , what is going on ? Why is that , I would like an answer please.
In another exercise ( match the pairs) they propose "castelli" for "caste. Shouldn't it be "castello"?
