"He eats bread."
Translation:Lui mangia il pane.
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Why is the definitive article used? It asks for he eats bread yet the answer reads he eats the bread.
Almost everything in every other language has an article attached to it in some shape or fashion that is used to describe what is going on in the sentence. 99% of the time, you will always include the article no matter what. "He eats some bread" will still have some conjugation of "the" mixed in there. I know in French it would be "du pain" even though it is technically "de le pain". It's just a rule that we have to follow. So, to answer your question. You pretty much always, 99.999% of the time, have to use an article that matches gender and number of the name.
This reply is definitely not correct. How do you differ in Italian language between "He eats bread" and "He eats the bread", a bread which is specified. In German "Er isst Brot", bread in general and "Er isst das Brot", a specified piece of bread? In Hebrew:
הוא אוכל לחם and הוא אוכל את הלחם
and in many other languages
Thank you for your explanation, that is the same thing in German. But here I didn't know is we know if it is a piece of bread or a identified bread (dark, white, panini etc.) so I can choose "il" or "un".
Er isst Brot (im Allgemeinen)
Er isst das Brot (welches vor ihm jetzt liegt)
I chose lui mangia pane and it said correct, isn't it the correct translation?
I don't understand the usage of "il" here when the English does not call for "the bread".
A verb can't be male or female. "Mangia" is just the conjugation in the third person
Strangely enough, in the present tense of Hebrew (at least in modern, I think), verbs ARE conjugated by gender. But in every other instance I've ever heard of, this is not so. Just thought that might be interesting to some people.......
But Italian is more similar to Spanish, not Hebrew. In Polish verbs also depend on gender.
Arabic and Lákȟota (a native american language) also mark gender on the verb
That's very interesting. It's the first time I'm hearing about a verb like that.
you are correct. You know whether somebody makes a phonecall with a male or a female in Hebrew and Arabic without seeing the person at the other end of the phonecall. I do not recall another language with this specification
Why can't we right " Lui mangi pane" Why do we need to write "il" before pane even if "the" is not mentioned.
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He eats sugar has no article but he eats bread requires the article. I am strughling to know why.
He eats bread somehow equals to mangia IL pane? Where was the 'the' in the sentence
Can someone fix this? It's saying "Lui mangia pane" is wrong. There is no definitive article in the english translation, and therefore should not require one in the italian translation.
I challenge this response. The sentence is not "he eats the bread" it's "he eats bread" please adjust either the question or the answer.
If you click on the hint for "eats" it opens up with the following options: lui/lei mangia
lui/lei mangi
Yet it seems lui mangi is wrong in this context- when is lui mangi used instead of lui mangia?
To be clear, this phrase, 'Mangia il pane' doesn't identify that it's "He" who is eating the bread. It could be a "She". But it can ONLY be referring to one person at a time performing the act of eating bread in the present tense.
Lui mangia il pane. = He eats the bread, could also be read as, He is eating the bread.
Lei mangia il pane. = She eats the bread, could also be read as, She is eating the bread.
'Mangia il pane' relies on the context it's used in to know if it's referring to a male or female performing the present act of eating bread.
your correct answer is Correct solutions: Mangia il pane., Lui mangia il pane. and i choose also your option 3 is Lui mangia il pane then why my answer showing incorrect.
How do u know between mangi and mangia i got it right but im still confused by the two of these words amd what mangi actually means in English
Mangia = lui/lei mangia (3rd pers. tempo presente) he/she/it eats;
Mangio = io mangio (1st pers. tempo presente) I eat
I'm confused isn't it supposed to be "lui mangio pane" because he's a boy so its masculine?
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when i tapped the word for a translation it said lui mangi. i did it like that and it wasted me a heart and said that it wasnt lui mangi but lui mangia!
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The questionable statistics aside, in this very same exercise s correct answer was la ragazza mangia zucchero - no definite article. The use of the definite article based on opposing examples points to an arbitrary application of some vague rule, if such a rule even exists. The issue is not that my answer was wrong, but why the definite article here.
Agh! This is confusing! I am in french immersion, and a lot of italian words are the same as French words but they mean diferent things... ex: il, le, etc...
Why is mangia il pane and yet mangia zucchero ,without the definite article?
I think when we say he eats bred that means he eats a bread And here un means a But you prefer to use il Is there a matter about me or you?
