"Abbiamo l'ingrediente per la torta."

Translation: We have the ingredient for the cake.

[twisted_fool]

Not really a cake if it has only one ingredient is it!

[gpriddy]

I agree. We would never say that in English; that's why I translated it as "the ingredients".

[Lisagnipura]

gpriddy: Did Duo accept it?

[gpriddy]

No, Lisagnipura, it wasn't accepted!

[Marx345195]

It accepted it now but highlighted a typo.

[Mija438073]

Me too. For the same reason. Is it a trick exercise or merely a witless sentence?

[Lisagnipura]

twisted; No, but what does that have to do with this sentence? It does not say it is the only ingredient.

[liamvictor]

La frutta is plural ....

[Marx345195]

Well, except the ingredient is called 'cake'. ;-)

[tplombardo]

There is no way the l' is pronounced.

[strahil]

You can hear in the fast version, but it lacks in the slow one.

[eltapatio]

yes it is, I hear it!

[yottiegirl]

I make so many mistakes becquse the diction is not cleqr - the two versions sound different in that the first one sounds l', and the second one does not. grrrrrrr

[HaroldWonham]

You cannot possibly make a cake from one ingredient. I assumed the Italian singular stood for the English plural.

[peggy582366]

Can you just say "ho" instead

[JoToutin]

in the previous lesson, the ingredients where translated by l'ingrediente : i'm totaly lost. Who can clarify this issue ? thanks

[KarenHJensen]

I agree, this sentence would not make sense in English. Is ingrediente a word that stays the same from singular to plural in Italian?

[SchubertNo21]

I like Italian food and they would never use just one ingredient.

[SchubertNo21]

Now, if the had used: 'Abbiamo l'ingrediente mancante per la torta.' everyone would have figured it out.

[butthole971070]

That's either a boring cake or a really impressive ingredient.

[MattStewar848984]

Sentence structure is not correct for English. There is more than one ingredient in a cake, therefore, it should be plural.

[MeuamP]

Per sounds like terra.