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In British English, that sentence is perfectly acceptable. Americans don't always see it that way but that's the way it is over here, so it's perfectly correct to be on the course, as that's how people speak.
Ah-ha, another distinction between two groups who purportedly speak a common language, at least according to Gen. Geo. Patton.
Thank you duo for putting in sentences with the article 'lo' in the clitics section to remind us it is used as an article as well as a pronoun.
The word strumento refers to a musical instrument?Because duolingo says it also means tool
In American English you do not need to say has GOT the instrument in this translation
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Yes, because "Chi ha lo strumento" means "Who has the instrument". A person can HAVE something without OWNING it. So, it is the verb "owns" which is incorrect.
Who has the instrument? Where is the Italian version of "got"? Duo addited, which by the way, Duo does not permit us. For a good reason...
In this sentence "got" has no meaning of its own. It is just part of the complex verb "to have got" used predominantly in UK, whereas in US the simple verb "to have" is mostly used.
- (UK) Who has got the instrument?
- (US) Who has the instrument?
You're right, but in the US the contraction "who's" (who has) plus "got" is also very common. "Who's got the time?" and "Who's got the ball?" are just two examples that are frequently heard.
Indeed. But 1) the primary translation here is "Who has got", not "Who's got" and 2) in both cases "got" has no meaning of its own. It is just part of the complex verb "to have got".
I'm not sure what you meant by "in both cases 'got' has no meaning of its own." In the sentences "Who's got the time?" and "Who's got the ball?", "got" has meaning because if we eliminate it, we change the meaning of the sentences.
"Who's the time?" makes no sense, and "Who's the ball?" means something entirely different from "Who's got the ball?"
I do agree that when it's not used with a contracted form of the verb "have," "got" adds no meaning, and maybe that's what you meant.
- case 1: "Who has got"
- case 2: "Who's got"
In both cases "got" has no meaning of its own. It is just part of the complex verb "to have got".
In the sentences "Who's got the time?" and "Who's got the ball?", "got" also has no meaning of its own because if we isolate it, we change the meaning of the sentences:
- "Who got the time?" means something entirely different from "Who's got the time?"
- "Who got the ball?" means something entirely different from "Who's got the ball?"
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I have got to think about this. :) I think "got" is used for emphasis when used with the uncontracted "have".
The way I read the sentence, that should be a correct translation in English. Was it marked wrong?
Who has got the instrument? I would say who has the instrument rather than inserting the word 'got'
It isn't grammatically wrong, but it would only be used if the person asking already knew that someone else didn't have the instrument eg: Person A hasn't got the instrument, Person B hasn't got the instrument... Who does have the instrument? (and you'd emphasise the word "does", either by pronouncing it more forcefully or by writing it in italics).
- lo = the (masculine singular before s+consonant, z, ps, pn, gn, x, y, i+vowel)
- il = the (masculine singular before other consonants)
- l' = the (masculine and feminine singular before vowels)
- la = the (feminine singular before consonants)
- gli = the (masculine plural before vowels, s+consonant, z, ps, pn, gn, x, y, i+vowel)
- i = the (masculine plural before other consonants)
- le = the (feminine plural)
Perché il plurale è "gli strumenti" e no "i strumenti"? Non è un sostantivo maschile?
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i is the plural of il, gli is the plural of lo and masculine l' and le is the feminine plural
This is poor English grammar! You csn say who has the instrument, or who got the instrument, but not the response that was given.
No. The audio was crap. I heard "Chi ha un strumento" on the fast audio, but trusted the slow audio.
Terrible audio, I heard "piano strumento" also and I listened to it about 10 times.
Are you using earphones? I find that helps tremendously and often repeat turtle mode two or three times.
I also hear "Piano strumento" in the fast versio and "Pi ha strumento" in the slow one
• Chi ha lo strumento?
• [ Who has the instrument? ]
• [ Who has got the instrument? ]
Accepted translations.
:) KK
novembre 2019
Why do we use "lo" here? Don't we use lo when there are foreign for Italian letters, like in "lo zucchero"?
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Right or wrong and whether or not it is popular with grammatical scholars "who's got the tool? " would be the normal English format to the question . This would certainly apply in the Midlands and North of England . This being said DL usually uses grammatical ,if sometimes strange, language which I follow even if it is not how I speak .
I know it's American English, but this example shows how unnecessary and pointlessly used is the word 'got'
Scusi ma tuo inglese non è perfetto. "has got" fails 8th grade English
Any particular reason why we use "lo" here instead of "il" , as in "il sandalo" ?
