"Lei mangia pollo ma non mangia pesce."

Translation: She eats chicken but does not eat fish.

[Biondina.]

how is she eats chicken but she does not eat fish.. wrong.. ?

[deactivated user]

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[Tyler_Norman]

It is fine. Report it as an error.

[JohnFrost7]

I wrote 'she eats chicken but not fish' so presumably it would be fine to say in Italian 'lei mangia pollo ma non pesce'?

[ThomasFAustria]

Why is there no article before pollo and pesce? In an other example I lost one heart

[deaatamimi]

When you talk about kind you use no articles.
As" I like travelling by trains"

[Biondina.]

it is also because it is generalisation, not a specific fish or specific piece of chicken.

[Punyae3671]

When should we use bensi and ma?

[Olivia252402]

Is there a shorter version of saying this in Italian like there is in English i.e. She eats chicken but not fish?

[yvonne487600]

why ma and not bensi

[franwy]

Why couldn't this also be the polite You? As in... "You eat chicken but not fish".

[Tyler_Norman]

For some reason DL is really bad at this. The formal you is sometimes capitalised 'Lei' but this is not required so you are correct.

I am not an expert Italian speaker but I noticed last time that I was in Italy that people in shops generally referred to me as 'Lei', so it is still in common use. I used 'Lei' in return.

I was told that older strangers can be offended if intially addressed as 'tu'. DL seems to treat the formal 'you' as archaic, like the English 'thou'.

[Randy-1]

I think that could be correct, lei = you (formal)

[RoyBonino]

Doesn't is the contraction of.. does not

[chris799808]

This answer does not require a second "does"

[terrywguo]

The audio is so fast, do Italian actually speak at that speed?

[hmill5]

That's what I said too!

[Rondinella01]

Indeed.

[Top-Ramen]

Just a second ago she said we wouldn't eat chicken because she wanted fish!

[stubbornuglybaby]

Guys this new edition of the voice recognition software really sucks. It used to not recognize simple sounds but now it's blanking on whole multi-syllable words. I repeat, whatever the changes in the last couple of days, they have made things in the voice recognition world much, much worse.

[Deana958965]

I wrote -she eats chicken but she does not eat fish- And was correct 06/2018

[Antonio975089]

"She eats chicken, but she does not eat fish." should be equally acceptable, yes?

[zaracandy]

Bnbb

[veena357117]

Why is she eats chicken put does not eat fish wrong

[veena357117]

I'm writing the correct answer and it marks me wr

[stelios.po18]

This sentence was really familiar to me as a native greek speaker. We also use "ma" as but on a sentence (but in greek allá is more usual than ma when you say "but" though)

[GABRIELRUA673570]

How is she eats chicken but she doesn't eat fish wrong?

[Hkon675461]

I translated 'lei' to she, but got an error saying it should be 'you'. That does not make sense.

[Belquis680528]

Nothing wrong using a contraction doesn't

[rzasharifi]

why in italian sentence they don't use "un-il" before pollo? also for pesce?

[april511692]

I wrote 'don't' instead of 'does not' and my answer was wrong

[PeterTaras]

So now you don't accept the word doesn't!! Really?