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| croatia88888 Newbie CroatiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4025 days ago 14 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 4 03 December 2013 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Italian Possessive Adjectives - Aggettivi Possessivi
could someone explain me if the extension of a word is added or changed when we use some of the possesive adjectives from the list, i know they change in plural right? but do they change/add to a word thats in singular? and i have to translate "his book" which someone translated for me into "il suo libro", shouldn't it be "la sua libro"? i'm sure a book is female gender in my main (croatian) language (or is the gender different in some languages?), or we first think of a word and see the extension if its "o" than we add "suo" if its "a" than "sua"? as "o" is male and "a" female extension to words and could someone tell me how can there be a "your" of loro (they) if a "your" of loro is surely just "their"? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4323 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 2 of 4 03 December 2013 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately, genders change across languages, specially if they don't belong to the
same family. For example, "Sun" is masculine in Italian (il sole), but feminine in German (die Sonne). In this case, "Libro" is a masculine word in this language. In many Romance languages (Italian, Spanish or Portuguese, for example), most words that ends with "o" are masculine and if a noun ends with "a", then it's very probably it's a feminine word. Edited by nicozerpa on 03 December 2013 at 2:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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btw here is the link i wanted to post instead of the title in the topic
http://historum.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fitali an.about.com%2Flibrary%2Ffare%2Fblfare132a.htm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 4 03 December 2013 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
I think your gender question has been answered already.
There happens to be more than one "loro" in Italian, the spelling an pronunciation just happens to be identical. Most languages have words that seem to perform more than once function. I'd guess that, once you become familiar with it, "loro" won't be too much of a problem, far less than "ci" for example. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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