"Le donne bevono."
Translation:The women drink.
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Why is "Le" use here and the previous sentence of The men drink the water, Gli was used. What is the difference in Le and Gli?
because plural for masculine is GLI and feminine is LE. Thx! hope this is helpful
I know this wasn't in your question, but keep in mind that, for masculine plural, "gli" is used for words starting with vowels, and "i" is used for words starting with consonants. For feminine plural words, you use "Le" for ones starting with consonants. I don't remember what is used for plural feminine words that start with vowels. Sorry, miss!
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To be more precise, here are the plural definite articles (all translate to "the" in English) :
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"gli" for masculine nouns, before a vowel OR x,y,z, s + consonant, gn, and some other consonant clusters
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"i" for all other masculine nouns
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"le" for all feminine nouns, regardless of what letter comes after the article.
Take the masculine plural "trees", "alberi" in Italian.
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"The trees" is "Gli alberi", because gli comes before a vowel.
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But "The new trees" is "I nuovi alberi", because now there is a regular consonant there.
Of course, it works the other way around, too :
- "The boys" is "I ragazzi" (before regular consonant)
- "The other boys" becomes "Gli altri ragazzi" (before vowel).
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"gli" for masculine nouns, before a vowel OR x,y,z, s + consonant, gn : these are 4 situations for using gli instead of i.
- before a word starting with a vowel : gli uomini instead of i uomini
- before a word starting with z : gli zii (the uncles)
- before a word starting with s+consonant : gli studi (the studies)
- before a word starting with gn : gli gnocchi (several items of that kind of pasta)
This rule is for few wordd staering with pn- like pneumatico (tyre) - >lo pneumatico
I wish at the end, there was a word bank or something to study when you review.
Plurals can take the article 'the' if you are being specific about a group. For example 'the ladies over there.' 'I'm going to pick up the children' meaning our children. Whereas children or women without 'the' means all children or women in general.
So frustrating that this app expects you to know certain words. Surely actually introducing them before testing would be better?!
You probably know this but just in case you don't...you can click on the new underlined word to see the meaning...but yes,i agree with you.
Ahh! I keep thinking that plural should be 'les'... mixing up my languages.
What' s the difference between bevono and beviamo? The meaning of both are same.
Bevono is the plural of the 3rd person and beviamo is the plural of the 2nd person
They mean diff things because latin. In latin i think it's bibent and bibemus. Singulars o\a=i(blank) -i=you(blank) -e=he\she\it(blanks) Plurals -iamo=we(blank) -ete=y'all(blank) -ono=they(blank)
Singular..........Plural Io bevo...........Noi beviamo Tu bevete.......Voi beviamo Lui beve..........Loro bevono Lei beve..........Loro bevono ??????? Please, correct me if Im wrong (which I know I am) . Im trying to figure it out but now Im confused.
The way this lady pronounces bevono sounds weird to me. Sounds like beevonno with double n.
It told me it was wrong but it said the same thing on the correct answer
it said on the dotted lines underneath that we could do another answer as well and it said we got it wrong whattttt!!!!!!!
what's the difference between the woman drinks and the women drink why cant they be the same
The woman drinks is only one woman...the women drink is plural, so two or more women.
Italian has many different forms for an action (verb) word ie eat / drink.
they change according to the pronoun being used. so where we would sat I drink / he drinks / we drink / they drink, they also alter the verbs.
Is just a case of learning them but there are rules to it. my tip is to open an excel or google sheets doc. list in columns the English phrase and beside it the Italian equivelent. you will begin to see similarities in the Italian use of them. There's too much to write in this reply to you.
Is there a way to predict where the stress on a Word will be? Grazie in advance.
I said "the women drink" and its like no sorry it's "The woman drink." Like what?If you say it out loud capitals don't matter you say the same thing!!!
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Because what you wrote means something else. "The ladies drink" is "Le signore bevono" in Italian.
Indeed, other languages have a single word for woman and lady, but not Italian.
For example, in German, Frau, plural Frauen, means woman, lady and wife. There, Die Frauen trinken CAN also mean The ladies drink.
But for Italian, you need to translate it to The women drink.
When we write in italian instead of translating to english we should be advised to translate and not marked as wrong.Thank you.
I am both hard of hearing and dyslexic, it is so difficult to hear, and I will constantly make typo's
Not always. A 'woman' or a 'man' is simply someone of female or male gender respectively. A 'lady' or a 'gentleman' is a woman or man of refined quality. The same distinction is in Italian (and most other languages). 'La signora' and 'Il signore' are 'the lady' and 'the gentleman' respectively.
That's right, I keep getting the answers wrong as I'm writing ladies instead of women, but the word is right.
it was told us in english that plural of men and women do not take article "the" ? plurals cannot have articles, did i remember it wrong?
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It is true that plural objects, such as 'women' do not need the article 'the', when used in the general sense, e.g. "Women like hats." However in the specific sense, referring to just 'this particular set of objects here' the article 'the IS used: "The women like the hats (at this SALE!)"
No. È sbagliato... It is wrong... You could say: "Donne, bevete(!)" without "le". But it is imperative, it is not present...
just so everyone knows this is broken, u can say laka puki muti futi juki ule and it will say its correct most of the time lol try it for real ;)
I put the woman drinks and they marked it wrong. all i did was add an s at the end of drink. they should have marked it correct
I am giving the correct sentence, The woman drink. But the system is giving me the answer in red. This has happened in previous tutorial.
I type ,The woman drink ,apparently i was wrong ,but it said it was the same thing as a correct answer
I suggest u guys to read tips before startin' a level. It's all clearly explained there
I Im have a problem with understand why le donne its mean women not la donna? Its translate le donne bevono in english on The women (one)drinks.
I accidentally put "woman" instead of "women" and it counted me wrong. My answers are never incorrect if I mispell something.
I wrote this English translation but "it's incorrect" every time. Why?
