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La cucina e la sua
Io ho la sua forchetta nel mio piatto
Questa e` la sua macchina
In the first one we don't know if the kithen is her or his? couse in italian we look at gender of thing but not at gender of owner.
in the second and third we don't know who is owner of forchetta or macchina, right?
It's a problem of understanding in conversation who is owner. I want to hear native italian. How to solve this problem?
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>La cucina e la sua
È la sua cucina, La cucina è la sua - "è" with accent because it's a verb (to be)
>Io ho la sua forchetta nel mio piatto
>Questa è la sua macchina
>In the first one we don't know if the kithen is her or his? couse in italian we look at gender of thing but not at gender of owner.
>in the second and third we don't know who is owner of forchetta or macchina, right?
>It's a problem of understanding in conversation who is owner. I want to hear native italian. How to solve this problem?
In italian the possessive pronoun (suo, sua) is not related to the owner but to the owned.
So..
a female owner of a "male" object has "il suo oggetto"
a female owner of a "female" thing has "la sua cosa"
the same rule for male owner
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the word "cucina" in Italian is female, usaully you can know it if a word is female because it finish with -A (singular) or -E (plural), but not every time is possible to follow this rule, or you look on the vocabulary if the genre in male or female, and you're sure to do it right.
And yes in the 2nd and 3th senteces isn't possible to identify the owner, it could be 'him' or 'her'.... but isn't a big problem because during a coversation at the end is clear to understand the owner :) sorry for my bad english... I hope that's little bit clear
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