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- "He eats bread."
"He eats bread."
Translation:Lui mangia il pane.
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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.
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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
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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
It comes from the verb ending. In Italian, there are three verb endings: -are, -ere, and -ire. Each verb has its own set of conjugations corresponding to the ending (unless it's irregular). For example, you have Mangiare. Since it ends in -are, the Lui/Lei conjugation would be mangia. For the verb bevere (ends in -ere), the conjugation would be Lui/Lei beve. For the verb dormire (ends in -ire), the Lui/Lei conjugation would be dorme. Remember, not all verbs have conjugations that correspond to their endings, but MOST do.
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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.