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- "Lei mangia il pane."
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Write this down: io mangio I eat / tu mangi you eat (singular) / lui mangia he eats /lei mangia she eats / noi mangiamo we eat / voi mangiate you eat (plural) / loro mangiano they eat
I tried to make this a vertical list but it didn't work.
Also keep in mind that the personal pronouns are not always used;e.g. "Mangio una mela." = I eat an apple.
That's basically it. You'll get other stuff later. If you learn the suffixes it will help with other verbs in present tense. Good luck with Italian. Hope you enjoy Duo as much as I.
>l'< can only be used before words that start with a vowel: l'albero (the tree, masculine), l'arancia (the orange, feminine). While >pane< is obviously gender neutral, in Italian the word is grammatically masculine. However, if you were to say "la pagnotta" (breadloaf), that is actually feminine. This is the biggest problem with gendered languages, you can't just tell what "gender" an object is, it is arbitrary. For instance, in Italian "la luna" (the moon) is feminine and "il sole" (the sun) is masculine, while in German they are reversed: "die Sonne" (the sun) is feminine and "der Mond" (the moon) is masculine. Like I said, it's (mostly) arbitrary. Hope this helps :)
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Why "il pane" and not "pane"? She eat bread, not She eats THE bread. I must have missed a rule somewhere.