Im confused about these things in italian?
1) What’s the difference between sciocca and scemo?
2) l'edicola vs. le edicole why does one have apostrophe and the other doesn’t? Shouldn't the plural article+word also have an apostrophe?
3) Io faccio ginnastica in palestra...
Should this be LA palestra?
4) When someone says "nipote" how do I know if the speaker is referring to a neice/ nephew or a male/female grandchild?
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Im confused about these things in italian?
1) What’s the difference between sciocca and scemo?
sciocca and scemo are the same think, but sciocca, is for female and scemo is for male.
but you can use the same word for a man or for a woman, for example scioccO for a man and scemA for a woman...
sorry for my english is very bad
2) l'edicola vs. le edicole why does one have apostrophe and the other doesn’t? Shouldn't the plural article+word also have an apostrophe?
because when a word start with a vocal for example APE, you must utilze apostrophe, L'APE. but if i say API the word don't needs apostrophe because is plural
3) Io faccio ginnastica in palestra...
Should this be LA palestra?
4) When someone says "nipote" how do I know if the speaker is referring to a neice/ nephew or a male/female grandchild?
thanks article, infact if you are refer at a man you must use IL nipote, and if you are refer at a woman you must use LA nipote
i hope that you understand my english because is very bad
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Im confused about these things in italian?
1) What’s the difference between sciocca and scemo?
sciocca/sciocco is more light, both can be used friendly, but scemo could be used as an insult: "quello è tutto scemo!"
2) l'edicola vs. le edicole why does one have apostrophe and the other doesn’t? Shouldn't the plural article+word also have an apostrophe?
ummmhh. seems like it shouldn't!
3) Io faccio ginnastica in palestra...
Should this be LA palestra?
"faccio ginnastica la palestra" doesn't mean anything, without preposition the substantive after the verb is the object of the action, but you can use the preposition and the article in junction: "nella" "faccio ginnastica nella palestra" "I'm doing gymnastic in the gym". Also: articles in italian can be often omitted, this is one of the cases so "io faccio ginnastica in palestra" is also correct.
4) When someone says "nipote" how do I know if the speaker is referring to a neice/ nephew or a male/female grandchild?
you guess using the context.
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In Italian, elision does not take place with the plural articles. Eg: l'amica, le amiche. However, in the masculine plural, i changes to gli before a vowel ( l'amico, gli amici ) or esse impura (lo stato, gli stati).
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Hi, I try to answer to your questions better than I can.
1) Sciocca is used as silly in English and usually is not an insult. Scemo sounds more as stupid (we also say stupido) and is used for offending someone. Anyway often it depends of the context, if you are arguing or just kidding with someone.
2) Right! I never payed attention to this. In my opinion this is an exception. :-)
3) No, your first sentence is perfect. La palestra, in this case, doesn't sound well. I hope I understood correctly your question...
4) You can understand if an italian is speaking about a male or a female because we add the article or the adjective to the word "nipote".
For instance: mia nipote, mio nipote, il nipote di mio fratello, la nipote di mio cugino.
And... I'm sorry, you can understand if he/she is a nephew/nice or a granchild only from the context. We use the same word for both.
I hope I helped you.
Ciao
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