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This sounds like someone's just making bread, really, unless they have a bucket of Spenda somewhere.
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During the Second World War, sugar was rationed and carrots were not. The Ministry of Food published cake recipes that had no sugar in them.
You could be pedantic and say there is sugar in carrots. Therefore those cakes contained sugar but you know what they meant.
Yes there were sugarless cakes, eggless cakes and all that. I didn't dare try the translation sugarless. That's what my mother called them.
At normal speed she says "Faccio la torta.." and on slow it's "Faccio una torta" - got marked wrong because I didn't listen to the slower version?
Me too. I tend to listen to the slower versions more often for this reason; they're at least closer to what Duo wants you to hear.
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I agree I tend to listen to the slower ones as well as the fast ones but the latter can get confusing
No. The normal speed clearly says {una}. Fa--ccio-u--na tor--ta zenz-a zu--cche--ro.
My original comment was from three years ago. Good thing they finally fixed it! :)
The meaning of senza and all the other conjugations could be remembered if you remember that they sound and look a lot like sans in English. Let me know if this helps!
[QUESTION]
Instead of "I make a cake", could we translate the sentence "Faccio una torta" as "I bake a cake" too?
Grazie^^
It have to be Make because Faccio it means creating something by someone or something, such as a house, a car, a movie, a book, etc. and if you use Baking you are trying to say that you can also bake a car or a movie or whatever you want to create.
It seems this might be a valid translation to me. At this point there is only one other response. Anyone else care to chime in?
technically speaking, that is not correct, because the verb fare means to do or to make, which is more widely used than infornare, to bake. But it is such a subtle difference that in this case, it is interchangeable.
because the real and complete word is SENZA, senz is used when the following word starts with "A" so you don´t need to repeat the same sound, and you just use the apostrophe. In this case the next word starts with Z... so there´s no need of avoiding the A in Senza.
I wish Duolingo would include the infinitive when they give the verb hints. It would help with the ending for the rest of the conjugation.
i tried saying "i make a cake with no sugar" and it was wrong... just because i didn´t use WITHOUT, and that way is also correct...for me. Duolingo needs to add this option, as it is perfectly correct.
I also reported it but it's hopeless. It seems like Italian doesn't get maintained very much. I see many sentences added long ago still not fixed. This one is 4 years old already.
It was for Kyle. After the fiasco with the wedding, the wedding cake, the chocolate fountain, and Reeses Pieces, his parents finally got some common sense. (If confused search Studio C Kyle on YouTube)
I ate a buttermilk pie without sugar! Good grief, it was the most sour thing I ever tasted!!! >~
Specchio specchio delle mie brame,sono io la modella che la dà al reame,non tocco cibo da settimane,voglio una torta con l'aspartame
Yes torta is cake. And there are many recipes for cake without sugar. In fact they sometimes leave more ingredients out than you thought were in there to begin with (slight exaggeration).
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I thought that "prepare a cake" it might work instead of "make a cake", but it didn't :(
Senza is a preposition. Prepositions do not change with number or gender.
The word senza is invariable. It only has one form. Most Italian prepositions combine with articles and have different forms, but senza doesn't use an article.
