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drygramul
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19 May 2014 at 4:01pm | IP Logged

sillygoose1 wrote:

Thanks guys. So basically the Italian "gli" is equivalent to the French "lui" and Spanish "le" in the sense that gender isn't really a factor.

Not gli, but glielo, gliene, gliela, etc. Gli is used only with masculine nouns.
>> M) Gli ho dato una mela. >> A lui
However:
>> F) Le ho dato una mela. >> A lei

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Sometimes I see things like "Una bottiglia d'acqua" where "di" is contracted in order to flow better. But I also see cases where the sentence is like "Una cosa di importanza". [...] I'm not sure how it works in these cases.

You can use both forms (contracted or not). I don't know why "di importanza" occur more often. Maybe it's because usally an attributive adjective precedes it
>> una cosa di tale importanza
>> una cosa di fondamentale importanza
and you don't contract the preposition in those cases. So that it just sounds better. But it's just a guess.

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Are sentences like "Quell'e' un problema" acceptable? Does the o or a ever get removed with quello/quella in normal speech?

It does get removed most of the times, but not with "è". This form is outdated, and it sounds dialectal.

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How prevalent are constructions such as "c'ho" or "c'hai"? Is that only a Roman thing?
"C'ho una sorella", "C'hai un gatto?"

They're not prevalent, but I've heard some classmates in high school and mostly teenagers speak like that (Lombardia). Is sounds perfectly normal or not very bright, depending on the specific use, but it's very hard to explain.

Edited by drygramul on 19 May 2014 at 4:03pm

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