"Lei ha un giornale."
Translation:She has a newspaper.
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Social context. Or if it's not the first word in the sentence, it's always capitalized.
lei = she
Lei = you (sg.fml)
loro = they
Loro = (pl.fml)
The H in "ha," of course, is silent; the A in "ha" and the U in "un" are elided -- so that, to my American ears, it sounds like "lay-on-jore-nah-lay." Just listen closely: Native speakers run vowel sounds together like this all the time, and you're SPOHSTAH (i.e., "supposed to") know that.
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I don't understand why they say the answer is: 'She has a newspaper' OR 'You have got a newspaper.' Why the 'got'? I said: 'You have/She has a newspaper.' I don't see why that's wrong - ?
It says translate this: Lei ha un giornale. So it goes like this: Lei - She, ha - verb Avere (Have) for 3rd 'face' so HAS, un giornale that follows, so giornale means newspaper and un means 'a'. You put it together and you have your sentence translated: She has a newspaper. :) You can't wrote 'you have' because it is clear that Lei ha stands for She has. Verb Avere (Have - In English): Io ho, Tu hai, Lui/Lei ha, Noi abbiamo, Voi abbiate, Loro hanno. It is not regular verb.
That's because Lei is the formal form of tu, and Loro is the formal form of voi.
Then you must have had an error somewhere that you didn't see. From now on, please either copy and paste or take a screenshot of your full, exact answer so we can help you see why it marked you wrong.
Italian lets you drop the subject pronouns. Ha un giornale is perfectly valid.
This translation is wrong - the correct answer is SHE HAS a newspaper, but the answer given is YOU HAVE a newspaper.
Lei with a capital L is the formal/polite form of the singular "you" and takes all of the trappings of the 3rd person singular.
This has been addressed in the comments here several times before.
Yes, Lei with a capital L is the formal/polite "you", so depending on context it could mean either.
It's written lei ha un giornale which means she has a newspaper and it's asked from to write you have a newspaper which is not correct -.-'
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Yes, lei is "she". And Lei is the formal/polite singular "you". It's not unlike the Spanish usted.
When simply "Ha un giornale" Is there a way of implying that it is "Lui" or "Lei"?
