"The cats drink water."
Translation:Le gatte bevono acqua.
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I've seen some examples, a cat can definitely be male or female, but as in English this phrase doesn't specify gender, it should give correct both gatte or gatti, or give correct the gatti answer, which is the generic way of calling a cat. This is so annoying, unfair and misleading, it feels they do this little things to piss off people, I don't see a way this can make sense
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"Gli animali bevono acqua." but "I gatti bevono l'acqua."? Why am I always corrected to use "l'acqua" and then Duolingo comes with a sentence without the "l'"?
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Cat (singular) is "il gatto" and Cats (plural) are "i gatti" . Now we can refer to the female cat (in singular) as "la gatta" and female cats (plural) becomes "Le gatte"
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For all confused people here :
il gatto = the cat (masculine singular)
i gatti = the cats (masculine plural)
La gatta = the cat (feminine singular)
Le gatte = the cats (feminine plural)
gli is used when the noun starts with s followed by a consonant or if the noun starts with a vowel. Ex: gli uomini (l'uomo) and gli stivali (lo stivalo). it is the plural form of "lo" and "l' ", the articles used, respectively, in front of singular male nouns beginning with s and a consonant, and singular male nouns beginning with a vowel.
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Please see this nice link http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/italian-definite-article-forms.htm which explains Italian Definite Article Forms
Il, gli and i are the articles that you have to use when you are reffering to male words. Il and l' are used for singular nouns, gli and i for the plural ones. La is the article you have to use when you're referring to a female noun. Le is for the plural female nouns. You have to learn and memorize just by training which words need one type of article or another.
Il is before a masculine singular (libro), gli (pronounced lee i think) is before any plural starting with a vowel (gli animali), "i" is before a regular masculine plural (i gatti), le is before a feminine plural (le donne), la is before a feminine singular (la ragazza), and l' is before a singular noun starting with a vowel (l'uomo)
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Please see this nice link http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/italian-definite-article-forms.htm which explains Italian Definite Article Forms
since gatto is masculine, it would be I gatti because "le" is the feminine plural article
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A female cat is 'una gatta'. A male cat is 'un gatto' and this also seems to be used when you don't know the sex of the cat..
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Seriously, how is "Il gatti bevono acqua" wrong? It says that my answer should be: "Il gatti bevono l'acqua". And the questions says "the cats drink water" not THE water
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It should be "i gatti" (male cats or a group of both male/female) or "le gatte" (female cats).