I agree. I wrote it as above because I also didn't want to lose a heart, but it is not the way one would say it in English. 'You have soup', 'you have some soup', or 'you have a bowl of soup' are all more idiomatic English than the literal translation above. I think they should be accepted as well.

Although this certainly isn't a common phrase in English it is conceivable that one might say this in English. For example one might notice that a restaurant offers a soup on their menu and then state "You have a soup. Can you tell me more about it?". Granted if this were a question and not a statement it would probably be more intuitive as it would be a more common use case.

This is not correct English; you have a bowl of soup is correct. I wrote it to not lose a heart :)

No one says "a" soup.

"What warm dish do you have for lunch?" "I have a soup!" I think using the lexeme "a" is a more formal way of speaking in English.

By virtue of the answer saying "soup", you're already signifying that it is singular. Getting the wrong answer for NOT saying "a soup" is ridiculous, even more so given that it makes no sense in English.

I am a native English speaker but speaking it my whole life over 60 years no one who speaks English would ever say you have a soup they would just say you have soup

I agree. Incorrect English

Could you not just say "Voi avete zuppa"?

This reminds me of Jon Lajojie....

Usually with any kind of liquid you would never use "a". You would never say "I want a water" or "I have a soup" or "I drink a milk". If you wanted to indicated that it was only "one" of something you'd say "I want a bottle of water" or "I have a bowl of soup" or "I drink a glass of milk" or something along those lines.

Hi everyone, A few months ago before starting this lesson I created a table of all the relevant verbs of this lesson with conjugations to all the possible pronouns (to present tense, of course), I thought maybe some will be happy if I'll share it

Few comments: 1- Most of the verbs are from TinyCards (46 + bere that I think they forget to add to this lesson). 2 - I added comprare (to buy), uscire (to go out), abitare (to live in a house/region), and cucinare (to cook), because that some exercises in this chapter or the next one have them.

Good luck!

maybe it was not in a bowl

I wrote "you have some soup" and it was marked wrong. I did report it as a mistake but jeez.....

A soup is theoretically correct english, but linguistically it does not sound right, and I've never heard anyone ask for A soup

'A soup' would refer to a kind of soup rather than any specific quantity, it could make sense, it's just a less common sentence than 'You have a bowl of soup'.

I don't understand why I was counted wrong. "Voi avete" can mean " you are having" soup as well, right?

Do Italians notice the una? as in, would they say this is grammatically correct or incorrect? If that is how a native is going to speak, thats all i want. I don't care if it doesn't sound right unless it is truly wrong.

I know - it is easy - that 'una' is an indefinite article which may (in many) cases be properly translated by 'a', but the question is - what does this sentence mean? In what situation would you use it? If you wanted to convey the same thing as would be conveyed in English by "You are having soup." would this be a possible way to do it.

The meaning is correct without the article.

is that the verb ho? how is it going? io ho, tu ?, lui'lei ha, noi aviamo, voi avete, loro avono?

or something like this?

When learning a language, you need an open mind. That's what I'm getting from these comments. Even more, I've also been taking Japanese in school and you need to keep other things in mind. The different culture and customs for one and the different ways you explain things. In Japanese, you don't have some words, and you can't just translate it literally. Because, then it will sound like you don't know the language. But, sense isn't the thing that you need to understand, too. The grammar is important and a sentence in Duolingo may not be used in real life, but you need to recognize the grammar in it. So, some of the amusing and some of the odd ones are just used so you can tell when to use them.

Does this make grammatical sense in Italian?

What's wrong with "you are having a soup"

Why is it incorrect if I say "You guys have soup." ? That is how we always translate "voi" in my italian classes so you know it is the plural one.

in English we say "you have soup" not a soup

Yet again, its not 'I have a soup.' its 'I have soup.' please get it right!

In the preceding problem the article wasn't translated into English and it also was about soup.I don't get it

no one says that in english

I wrote "you have a soup", which sounds daft to a native english speaker but even so it corrected me providing the answer "You all have a soup".

this is incorrect grammar!!

How can i know this without taken it before ??!!

"A soup" in english could possibly indicate a choice of soups such as tomato or chicken noodle.

So I just got this wrong, but the 'correct' answer listed was not what I was expecting: "Y'all have a soup."

i have a very good soup

Can someone explain, why the answer is "Voi avete una zuppa" and not "Hai una zuppa"? What is the difference? Is the second sentece incorrect or mean something different?

Not even seeing the English translation, don't know what this means

This explains why Mario says it's a me.