"The candies are hers."

Translation: Le caramelle sono le sue.

[Lloydo3000]

After all those previous questions omitting la/le etcetera, I feel cheated! :b

Why was "La cucina e' tua" okay without the second "la" but it's wrong in this case?

[wjldlings]

It should be correct here too. Le caramelle sono sue makes perfect sense to me, and I'm Italian.

[deactivated user]

That just happened to me too, and no hearts left!!!

I am now going off to cry :(

:D

[rediskins]

'Sono le sue caramelle' - is that not an option?

[gullideckel]

Should be right. But didn't accept it.

[rich593762]

I think the same thing.

[UsefulBinkie]

Agreed with the above. Not come across this rule before and it is thrown up with no explanation. Any Italian speakers can help us with this please?

[cindy908920]

Le sue can mean his, or hers, or its, depending on context. Without context the translator of the sentence gets to choose. That is because -

Possessive pronouns must agree in gender with what they are possessing.

È il suo gatto
It is her/his cat

È la sua birra
It is her/his beer

È lo suo zucchero
It is her/his sugar

[scaniaman93]

Why sono instead of è ?

[bustsandbooks]

"The candies," which is the sentence's subject, is plural, so you need a plural verb. "The candies" can be replaced with "they" - and "sono" goes with "they," or anything in 3rd person pl.

[Fay.Mason-Dunne]

Grazie mille Bernadetterc

[T.R.Cox]

Caramele is pleural so sono/are. Caramela would be è/is

[DadaHua]

I think you should be careful about the emphasis. Usually when you want to emphasis the owner you will double the article: "Le caramele sono le sue.", which is also implied in English sentence. Otherwise it would be: "They are her candies." and the more appropriate translation in this case would be: "Sono le caramele sue."

But yeah .... sth I feel the same , as duolingo would make this rules very arbitrary .....

[JohnGardne7]

Is there a way to distinguish hers from his?

[Pablo928153]

You can say, "Le caramelle sono di lei/lui".

[JohnGardne7]

Grazie molto.

[danielray]

Why not "Le sue caramelle"? Means: her candies and that means the candies are hers

[sake706417]

To my understanding, the given translation "le caramelle sono LE sue" means "THIS candy is his/hers" which ist not the sames what has been asked.

[Columbo44]

Why not 'la sua` here, as 'hers' is referring to a single female?

[Kartagis]

But "le caramelle" is plural, that's why.

[deactivated user]

Ok can some one help... many times le sue refers to his but not this time,, how to tell which is which please.?

[ismyinsta]

Getting ready for halloweeenn

[RedSmerf]

So in this case, you use a plural for the person (le sue) even though you're referring to a single person?

[Rigzy]

This thing is so fickle. The last sentence I had was "la farfalla è sua," so I used the same pattern (le caramelle sono sue) and it said it was wrong, sould have been "...sono LE sue."

[JudithTomb3]

Typo typo typo .....obviously!