• landsharkkidd
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    1 year ago

    It’s so frustrating when you make a mistake because of the different ways Italian say eat. Like don’t take away a heart! Damn it!

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      1 year ago

      It’s a dipshit way of teaching you verbs. Here’s a cheat sheet: all regular verbs in Italian end in –are, –ere, or –ire. They tend to follow a pretty standard pattern with some deviations but that’s beyond this comment so we go beginner mode. Also I am using present tense, again, beginner mode.

      Mangiare is an -*Are *verb, so the conjugation is thus:

      io (I) mangio
      tu (you) mangi
      lui /lei (he/she/it) mangia
      noi (we plural) mangiamo
      voi (you plural) mangiate
      loro (it / they plural, also third person respectful) mangiano

      see how the -are part of mangiare changes with each subject? Not so much for Tu, but mangii is a stupid-looking word so we don’t use it :P

      Also I s2g it deliberately dips you on spelling when it shouldn’t just to fuck up a perfect score. I’ve seen it fuck me on a fat fingered mishap one instance, then the next say “I’ll allow it but you made a typo” once I’ve lost the precious

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        1 year ago

        Definitely saving this. I try to remember what the pronoun is, like Io is easy to remember but once noi and voi come in, it’s like, nope you’ve lost it.