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- "La crema bolle."
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Or... if you mouse over 'bolle' it also says it means 'ferments.' So maybe they're making yoghurt? Pretty big problem to have the same word mean both boil and ferment...
because you know... English totally doesn't have this kind of stuff hahahaha
actually it makes sense as when something ferments, it produces gas, and it makes bubbles sometimes as if it was boiling. Have you ever seen how beer ferments, for example?
Lol, I met an Italian girl recently and trying to impress her with my beginner Duolingo Italian I said "la crema bolle". Surprisingly, instead of saying it was a weird sentence she went on a tangent explaining that it must be such and such kind of cream and how to boil it properly. Turns out she loves cream ;)
yeahhh making points outside Duolingo! hahahaha good player!
nice! so, there are types of cream that could be boiled. interesting :)
Indeed, but if it's a milk based product, you simply Cannot Stop Stirring until you are done and ready to remove it from the heat. I have a custard based ice cream recipe that predates the Great Depression. It's Very labour intensive, but oh wow how good it tastes!!!
I closed the comments but as I was closing it seent "I ment an Italian girl" so I reopened comments just to read this xD Legendary
hahha, who knows how to prepare one of my best cream-fish-soup called "clam chowder". it is prepared by boiling milk and creams together with clam and fish etc. so, i guess the sentence is right, yayiiii!
Keep in mind kids, that those recipes both have mediums in them to provide protection for the dairy.
only reason im learning italian is cos of a girl i like. i have a feeling i wont be as lucky as you but good on ;)you m8 '
Ah the things that motivate the hearts of youth. :-) women inspire us to become more than what we have been, and do more than we ever thought possible. Viva l'amore!
I'm learning it because 1. I watch Seria A and most interviews and on -pitch shouting ,etc is in Italian. 2 Formula 1 Ferrari fan here who wants to dexipher the Italian team radio conversations :)
Also so that I can argue with people in Italian with them absolutely losing track of what I'm saying (I find Italian memes finny too just saying LOL)
You should see some of the sentences in the German and Danish courses... I will not spoil it for you...
Thanks haidarahhusain, but I spelled it like that on purpose.. lol since i was writing in English.
Custard is also considered la crema in Italian i cant imagine the cream boiling but custard i can almost imagine it
I'm thinking that many of these aren't normal sentences, but are just excuses to use words we've learned so far. :P Pretty funny. I wonder if we'll see any "Una mela mangia una ragazza" any time soon. :D I wouldn't be surprised.
It is just because you haven't seen the Danish couse, where "The woman drinks the man's juice", "The guest sings about the man's teddy bear", "The dog takes a beer for the man"
And in keeping with the culture, you should see some of the innuendo in the French course... ahem...
I seen "La donne mangi la ragazza." It was an incorrect answer to the translation but I still chuckled.
Perhaps it was, "The men write in sugar." That sparked this epiphany? ;-)
So many weird phrases about cooking cream, cooking chocolate cream.. what the hell
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So I'm guessing you haven't seen the sentences involving the cook cooking the snake.....?
I cooked cream yesterday. I was making chocolate truffles. Didn't boil it though...
Very, very strange. I thought they were looking for 'boiled cream' which is still weird.
A little. The cream boils... My first thought: Hopefully someone is boiling it and it is not in the kitchen boiling all by itself. My second thought: Why boil cream?
There is cream that you have to boil. We have vanilla and chocolate flavourde cream made from milk and corn flower and sugar. When you boil it, it thickens and when you cool it down its like a pudding. To me it's not such a strange sentence :D
'Bolle' is the third person singular conjugation of the verb 'bollire,' to boil. So bolle means 'it boils' (or I suppose he or she boils!).
In the present tense, any conjugation can be translated in two ways eg for mangiare:
mangio - I eat, I am eating mangia - He/she/it eats, he/she/it is eating, etc
So perhaps a translation that makes more sense here is 'the cream is boiling'? (duolingo WILL mark this correct by the way)
When i put 'bolle' into the google translator it says it means bubbles. So is this actually a verb and duolingo is not giving us the conjugation?
If you mouse over it, the pop-up should provide access to a simple conjugation chart. "Bolle" is the 3rd-person singular simple present form of "bollire". (link)
All I am getting is an explain button. I don't have a conjugate button when I hover over it.
If you want an accurate translation, I wouldn't be putting my bets on google translate over duolingo! Check WordReference
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I have been told by a native italian speaker that ' La crema' is what the English call custard, not cream. Cream is 'La panna', as in 'caffè con panna'.
Bringing milk or cream to a boil is required for some recipes. Keep stirring, and don't walk away from the stove. My question is why does bolle translate to boils and not boiled?
maybe someone has noticed it is coming to the boil and is alerting the cook, boiled would be bollita I guess, if you want hot coffee it can be bollente or something similar
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The past tense of the verb "to boil" is "bollito", for all persons. Hot coffee would be "caffè caldo", boiled coffee would be "caffè bollito, boiled cream (as used here) would be would "crema bollita". Here "hot" and "boiled" are adjectives so the ending changes to "a" for feminine nouns.
Update: Thanks Rae for emphasizing that. I was just trying to correct the spelling, though, that confusedbeetle thought was used for the past tense. I always enjoy reading your contributions to the forums. They teach me a lot.
It's never just "bollito", though. It's always "avere bollito" with the appropriate conjugation of "avere".
The 3rd person simple past, however, is "bolliva".
http://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?verbo=bollire
Being able to say out-of-the-ordinary phrases helps become fluent, otherwise you might just be memorizing phrases
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But using words in a way that you are likely to ever use them again is also valuable. When I was much younger I was taught the German phrase for "The dog goes to the rubber tree". 40 years on and I've never really found a good point to drop it into a conversation.
But it helped you learn the words "rubber", "tree", "dog", etc. And those words can be used any time.
Duo is almost defined by the unusual sentences. There's a method to the madness (and a touch of madness in the method), but it works for diverse learning, memory, and vocabulary development. :-)
Uncommon sentences are not unusual in language pedagogy. You can find a 60-year-old French textbook that teaches "La plume de ma tante est sur la table de mon oncle" ("My aunt's pen is on my uncle's table"). It's about giving you the building blocks of vocabulary and grammar.
It is exactly what the question asks. The phrase is 'La creme bolle' and if you move your mouse over bolle, it translates as boils or ferments. Since I make fermented dairy products, the latter seemed more pertinent.
Ah, I haven't done the mouse-over on this one for a while. My experience has been that you always use the first one listed.
I will try to remember that or maybe I should cook more. Boiling cream just sounds like a really bad idea.
I actually typed la "cream" bolle...instead of la "crema" bolle...and it mentioned it correct....!!!
You simply swapped two adjacent letters, and that's within the parameters for the correction algorithm to let it slide as a typo (as long as it doesn't make another word in that language).
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Then would "panna bolle" be something less controversial than "crema bolle"? And is this what happens when you make panna cotta?
"Crema" is a very general term in italian and it's basically something made of milk which is almost liquid.
It is often specified which kind of cream is, for example "crema al cioccolato, crema al limone, crema di formaggio".
I wrote "The boiled cream"..... Is that wrong, or...? They said it was wrong.
"The boiled cream" is a noun phrase, with "boiled" as the adjective that describes "cream".
"The cream boils" is a sentence, with "boils" as the verb.
"La crema bolle" is "The cream boils".
"The boiled cream" would be "La crema bollita".
I put cream boils and it was marked wrong. Why do you have to use the definite article here?
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Because it says "the/la cream boils". You'll always be safe putting in "the" when "the" is written and leaving it out when it is not written. In English, this sentence would usually be translated "The cream is boiling. We know that it is a specific cream that is boiling and not cream in general that is boiling.
It's a verb, conjugated to 3rd person singular.
BOLLIRE = TO BOIL
io bollo = I boil
tu bolli = you boil (s)
lui/lei bolle = he/she/it boils
noi bolliamo = we boil
voi bollite = you boil (pl)
loro bollono = they boil
Panna is cream ie panna montata whipped cream. Crema is like custard cream or vanilla cream its not panna at least in tuscany
Cream boil something??? The right version cream is boiled. Isn't it???
No. This is active voice, not passive voice. Boils/is boiling is intransitive here. It's simply "The cream boils".
No, those are two entirely different ideas. In this sentence, "The cream boils", it is literally liquid cream that is boiling.
In crème brûlé (and note the "R" there: it's cognate to our word broil) the term comes from the final touch, where the final product gets caramelized, these days with a blowtorch.
Can someone please tell me the difference between bolle and bollire?
Bollire is the infinitive "to boil".
Bolle is the 3rd person "it boils".
https://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=bollire
If it's not, and you had no typos or extra spaces, flag it and report it.
I noticed the usage of present continuous when translating these is always accepted on the desktop version and never so on mobile, which strikes me as odd since all they're doing with the mobile version at this point is filling it to the brim with more microtransactions and lifting the costs of already existing ones, since the 'lingot' deals are, albeit a bigger currency is at hand, a lot more favorable than the 'gem' ones.
That is very strange. It makes no sense for the database and correction algorithm to be different on different platforms. That's just more work for everyone.
Because that's the wrong word.
to ferment -- fermentare
to boil -- bollire
What the hell does it mean? I'm not a English native speaker and I have no idea of what this sentence should mean...
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"To boil" : in Italian "bollire". As in "boiling water", or bring water/milk/soup to a boil. So yes, it does say "The cream boils", (preposition, noun, verb).
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I saw somewhere that the verb "bollire" was conjugated as io bollisco / tu bollisci / lui bollisce / noi bolliamo / voi bollite / loro bolliscono. Is this actually true? Then how come this sentence is "La crema bolle" and not "La crema bollisce"? .-.
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Here: (http://pt.bab.la/verbo/italiano/bollire). I've used this site for months, mostly for German and Spanish, but I guess I never found any mistake until now. But tbh I never found out if it was really reliable or not lol.
That's strange. I looked around a bit to see if maybe it was a homograph that conjugates differently, but the only definition I can find for "bollire" is "to boil".
For what it's worth, Wiktionary agrees with italian-verbs.com:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bollire
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Yeah, and I guess that someone would have already pointed it if Duo was wrong, so I believe that that site I posted is wrong after all. Well, thanks for this site! :) I liked it and might as well use it instead of that one, at least for Italian.
Because "bolle" is not an adjective, it is a verb.
http://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?verbo=bollire
BOLLIRE = TO BOIL
io bollo = I boil
tu bolli = you boil (s)
lui/lei bolle = he/she/it boils
noi bolliamo = we boil
voi bollite = you boil (pl)
loro bollono = they boil
@Rae.F you have the patience of a saint! I could never do the labour of love that you do here. Thanks for all your help. :-)
