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- "Io sono tua."
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1922
Well Ed, if you feel like being a woman, you can use this sentence any time you want. For male users I recommend saying: "(Io) sono TUO." :)
or "Sono tutto tuo/tua." = "I'm all yours."
Have a nice day.
This left me confused too. I believe there is a rule that you can omit the article "il, la, lo, etc..." when the noun being described is singular AND referring to family.
Sources (combined the two): http://iltavoloitaliano.com/learning_about_Italian_personal_possessive_pronouns/ http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare124a.htm
In that case, this phrase just got more intimate hahah! Hope this helps! Ciao!
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No, you say "io sono tua" when you are a woman and "io sono tuo" when you are a man. It doesnt matter if you are talking to a man or a woman
I'm confused; I'm seeing a lot of people saying that because it's 'io' that this means the person saying it is female... I thought that 'io' means I, only. In my mind I had - this person said to her/him that she/he is hers/his. I went back to the basics of Duo's Italian course to see if I could find anything but I couldn't. Can anyone please highlight were I can find this explanation on when 'io' has a gender determination, thanks in advance.
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they aren't saying that ''io'' is female, they say that ''tua'' means that the person which is ''tua'' is a female because of ''tua'''s form
2037
Io as a word doesn't have one form for masculine and another form for feminine. It's not the io that tells us that the speaker is feminine It's the tua that tells us that a woman is speaking. After reading the whole sentence, we see that (to repeat what you thought) "this person (now we know she is female) said to her/him that she is his/hers." And her direct words to him/her were "I am yours."
Wow, triggers the song Suite: Judy Blue Eyes in my head when I hear this sentence. "I am yours, (you are mine, you are what you are...)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZGeU83K6Do