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Una mujer que habla italiano es __________.

Una mujer que habla italiano es __________.

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What belongs in the blank?

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updated Dec 8, 2009
posted by yungcash601

7 Answers

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"ítaloparlante"

updated Dec 8, 2009
edited by 00e657d4
posted by 00e657d4
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Come on people, Be polite. This person is new to this site and obviously a beginner. No need to mock him nor split hairs about the applicability of the sentence to all contexts. It's obviously pulled from a lesson consisting of similar sentences where the proper adjective form is to be created from a given noun or description to refer to the subject of the sentence..

Hola, Yungcash: ¡Bienvenido al foro!

The lesson is trying to teach you about concordance (agreement) of adjectives. Adjectives must match the noun that they modify in number (singular/plural) and gender (masculine/feminine/neuter).

In your example, one woman is the noun being modified. Usually adjectives that refer specifically to the female sex are feminine in gender.

Therefore we get:

Una mujer que habla italiano es italiana.

A hint to the proper form of the word can usually be given by other modifying words for the same noun. In your example, you could look to the indefinite article una to see that italiana must be singular in number and feminine in gender to show concordance with mujer.

updated Dec 7, 2009
edited by 0074b507
posted by 0074b507
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Although Quentin provided the answer that the original poster probably sought, the other responses provide the only laughs of the evening. (The question might have been better phrased.)

updated Dec 8, 2009
posted by samdie
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Oh look ...another guessing game!!

How about "bonita?"

updated Dec 7, 2009
posted by --Mariana--
I'm somewhat shocked by your reply! - 0074b507, Dec 7, 2009
Are you saying that women who speak Italian aren't pretty? I think Italian sounds very sexy. - 00f2b5a1, Dec 7, 2009
No, I'm saying that it was a flippant retort to what may have been a serious question. - - 0074b507, Dec 7, 2009
Sorry! - 00f2b5a1, Dec 7, 2009
Sorry :-( - --Mariana--, Dec 7, 2009
I think that Qfreed remembers his answer to one of my first questions and how I must have felt (and it wasn't a homework question) - Issabela, Dec 7, 2009
That's why he's been so helpful since then ;)) - Issabela, Dec 7, 2009
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italohablante

updated Dec 7, 2009
posted by jaimetayag
better yet. Many women who speak Italian are not Italian, but I don't think that was the point of the lesson. - 0074b507, Dec 7, 2009
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.......probablemente una vendedora de pizza.

updated Dec 7, 2009
posted by 00f2b5a1
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Like madlibs, we just need an adjective. In reality, you could put any adjective their from green, to smart, or even trustworthy.

updated Dec 7, 2009
posted by luhzon89