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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!
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.
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
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...
1950
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butty
It's a British term. Short for buttered sandwich.
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?
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.
- 1950
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. :-)
- 1950
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.
- 1950
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.
It's hillarious XD Learning language never felt this ... weird before XD i love it!
The cream boils. Is boil some kind of weird synonym for a round candy? Or is it really saying, the cream is boiling?
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".
If I was to be really pedantic which I am not really, that would be la crema sta bollendo
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La crema bolle can be translated as the simple present tense "The cream boils" or the present progressive/continuous "The cream is boiling."
First time i am shown crema and its the adeo version, did anyone else have this problem. I only got it right becouse they showed it as incorrect image answer earlier and i had memorised it because i like to cook.
I wrote "The boiled cream"..... Is that wrong, or...? They said it was wrong.
- 1950
"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?
- 1950
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
- 1950
No. This is active voice, not passive voice. Boils/is boiling is intransitive here. It's simply "The cream boils".
Why - when I write the correct answer it come up incorrect? Also with - The cake!
- 1950
It's a system-wide glitch many people have been experiencing. I even copied and pasted in the official answer and it still rejected it.
All you can do is report it and hope they're able to fix it on the back end.
- 1950
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.
- 1950
Bollire is the infinitive "to boil".
Bolle is the 3rd person "it boils".
https://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=bollire
From all the sentenced you could create with these words, they choose this. Why the cream boils? It doesn't make sense! How about boiling eggs?
What the hell does it mean? I'm not a English native speaker and I have no idea of what this sentence should mean...
"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).
Whipping cream is kind of boiled in an Indian dish called Chicken Tikka Masala :D but otherwise who boils cream?
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"? .-.
- 1950
Where did you see this?
http://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?verbo=bollire
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.
- 1950
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
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.
Bolle also means, "bubble," right? So I type in, "a cream bubble." I thought, well, ok...
First a cook is cooking a snake and now 'the cream boils'. The Italian course sure does have weird sentences...
The rng needs some work, I had like four questions about la crema bolle'ing in a row, followed by la crema al chocoato bolle'ing
In the "type what you hear" part, it is not saying the last word, so I keep getting it wrong.
- 1950
Then you need to flag it and report it. There's not much they can do about it here in the comments section.
- 1950
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. :-)
- 1950
"Thank you" is "grazie".
"Pesta" is the lui/lei form of "pestare", which means to beat or pound.
in English, one would never say "the cream boils", you would always use the present progressive tense - "the cream is boiling" (i.e. in process of boiling).
- 1950
Never say never. There is always a context for any tense, aspect, and mood.
- The cream boils when it's been simmering for too long.
- When the cream boils, reduce the heat and stir.
What works for me is that some of the phrases on here that we comment about most are likely to be the ones we remember the best
"Crème brûlée" ® (for example) TOP "sh*t" ! But,it s from France:-) P.s.: U have 2try ! &U wont be sorry ;-)
I just cooked boiled cream and it exploded in my face and then a hobo decided to eat it thats what goes on dow here in Osten USA
