"Faccio una torta senza zucchero."
Translation:I make a cake without sugar.
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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!
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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.
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 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.
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.
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)
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.
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).
I was pleasantly surprised when "I make a sugar free cake" was accepted! 25May18
Good point! Read the comments about "la crema bolle" and you finally start getting recipes for clam chowder (which involves boiling cream) and explanations about "boiled cream"=custard as some of the rest of us might call it.
I like seeing creative answers in addition to all the other (funny) ones!
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I thought that "prepare a cake" it might work instead of "make a cake", but it didn't :(
That's an easy one. Fare is to make or to do in Italian and facere is to make or to do in Latin or Romanian. Many Italian infinitives are just like their Latin parent, but not all.
I used the word pie for "torta", which is correct, yet dueling said it was wrong!