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- "Lei sente l'anatra."
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lol, i understand now why my mother's family always said "i felt something at the backyard". i thought they had ESP powers, it was just literal translation
I'm so happy she only heard the duck. That's so Much better than what I first thought it said...
Oh! I typed in "I feel the duck" and immediately thought of anatidaephobia...
SENTIR (Portuguese): to feel; SENTIR (French): to smell; SENTIRE (Italian): to hear.
Dear God, why... oh why? :(
in Italian , sentirsi means to feel :) so when you say i feel , you say mi sento
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Quite literally ,in this context you can use "sentir" in French in the very same way as the Italian "sentire" as well. Je me sens mal - "I feel bad". Je sens une présence "I feel a presence", etc.
I remember "smell" being in the hints for sentire somewhere...looking it up now, I see that's an intransitive use, which this sentence doesn't have. I translated it as "she smells the duck" but if I understand now, we'd write that as "lei sente odore dell'anantra".
Well, since one of the options for "sente" is feel like.........I tried that out, wondering if she did, indeed, feel like a duck. Duo has no sense of humor.
I thought of writing "She feels like a duck" too, just to check it out, but I didn't want to risk getting it wrong! I feel like a chicken...
I am not a chicken. I did it. Unfortunately DL doesn't have se se of humor
I was always under the assumption that "ascoltare" was to listen or to hear, I don't understand why "to feel" is being used here.
"Ascoltare", "sentire" and "udire" are synonyms, and sentire can mean both to hear and to feel.
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Would 'She senses the duck' be accepted? As the spelling in this case is so close to the English, it would be so convenient.
If English is your first language, you should know that "She senses the duck" isn't really an option, lol. "Sentire" can mean "to hear"and/or "to feel", but it doesn't mean "to sense". You might want to be careful about translating a word from one language into a similar sounding word in another. Sometimes that actually works, because English, for example, actually derives from four root languages. But other times, not so much. The word "gift" in English is identical to the word "gift" in German. But it means "poison". And so on...
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Oi! lorenagay, you cheeky monkey! "to sense" was not too bad a shout in this case. "to hear" and "to feel" are both forms of the five major 'senses', anyway. Although, using 'senses' in this sentence would seem abrupt. The sentence would have made more sense if it was, "She senses the duck's presence." (No pun intended). I was just throwing it out there to see if there was a connection, as "sentire" looked like it was gathering some 'senses'. ;-)
If you used the word "ascoltare", you should have gotten an OK from DL, but "sentire" is more common amongst Italians...
I'm not sure, but doesn't "ascoltare" rather mean "listen to", e.g. a symphony, rather than just hear?
Think of "sentire" as the feeling of sound vibrations that you hear. :) Hope that helps.
Yes. But. "She hears the duck" and "She can hear the duck" by no means mean the same thing :D
They do often mean the same thing - there isn't necessarily any difference in meaning between the two. "She can hear the duck" should be accepted.
With verbs of ‘inert perception’ and ‘inert cognition’… there is little difference between being able to do something and actually doing it, so can tends to lose its distinctive modal meaning… With ‘verbs of inert perception’, furthermore, can not only loses its distinctive modal value, but has the additional special function of denoting a state rather than an event. As the Simple Present of these verbs has only an ‘instantaneous’ event meaning… the main difference between… I can see and I see is one of perception as a state versus perception as a (momentary) event
For some reason I sounded more Irish than Italian when I said this sentence aloud... 0.o
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How about "She tastes the duck" as in a roast duck or something. I hear that use of sentire all the time.
I used the definition given by DL of "smells." If they don't want you to use a given translation, why do they give it??
It is so nice that in french "sentir" means both to feel and to smell, and in italian "sentire" means both to feel and to hear. Makes you think about the principal sens in each culture.
Earlier in the lesson they translated "Io sento..." into "I sense..." in the bottom part that shows what it really means when you get it wrong. Hovered over the word; it showed it for "hears", "feels", "senses". Now for "Lei sente..." I learned my lesson and figure it's the same word so Duolingo would translate it the same way as before. "She senses...". "WRONG!" says duolingo. What's going on here? What am I missing?
Is "She senses the duck" correct? I tried pushing my luck here but if it's wrong I don't know why.
Why isn't "she 'senses' the duck" acceptable? It accepts 'feels' and 'hears', both of which are senses.
"people hearing without listening"
Hearing is using one of your five senses. Listening uses your brain as well
FWIW
I have just finished reading an earlier discussion on "Io sento la donna", where it was said that sentire could mean to sense, hear, feel, taste or smell. Why is this specifically hearing the duck, when any of the other translations would seem as logical.
Lei sente l'anatra. She hears the duck. Lei sente l'anatra. She feels the duck. Don't you love it! LOL
'she listens to the duck' was not accepted, but shouldn't it have been?
Is this really accurate? Other sites translates this to, "She feels the duck"
In Italien über das Wochenende - diesen Satz habe ich noch nicht verwendet.
Just one of the wonderful, brilliant quirks of this language that continue to bring me joy.
Doesnt sentire include smell and all the other senses? The only one accepted as correct is HEARS. This seems wrong to me.
The Collins dictionary give multiple definitions for sentire: to feel, to taste, to smell, to hear and to listen to. There's some big differences here with consequences for the duck.) Is there some hint to tell which meaning is desired?
In La Divina Commedia, the word is the variant anitra. In Latin it's anas (genitive anatis) or anas/anitis, with a short second vowel, which, I suppose, explains the placement of the stress (ánatra). which I've been getting wrong all along...Peking duck is l'anatra alla pechinese. (In Japanese, duck is kamo, which can also mean someone easily fooled, cf. Italian pollo, as in polli alla pechinese, which may have more meaning than one.)
Nope, because sentire does not mean to listen, and in the case of listening, it is listening to > so she listens to the duck. Which in Italian would be Ascolta l'anatra..
