"The cook cooks a snake."
Translation:Il cuoco cucina un serpente.
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There is no difference between "a" and "one"; in this case they are interchangeable.
The rule is that you only use uno if the masculine noun begins with two consecutive consonants (or a z, or there are a few other less frequent cases).
Since a vowel follows the "s" in serpente, you must use "un".
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uno specchio (double consonant and masculine noun)
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uno studente (double consonant but you can't always count on the last letter to indicate the gender of the noun)
but:
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un serpente (single consonant at the start, masculine noun)
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una scuola (feminine, so the double consonant does not matter for this rule)
Thank you for this explanation, it is so helpful and I now see my error. Have a lingot for good measure.
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No trouble at all. And you can have the lingot back-- I have 10,665 of them that I don't know what to do with...
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Great explanation and was very helpful. That was the reason for me to look at the comments. Thanks! ...I'll take that lingot instead then! ;)
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So, you use uno in the same spaces where you would use lo for the definite article? uno squalo - lo squalo uno zoo - lo zoo
I just had the same problem. aside from not having had this word in Duolingo at this point, Collins Italian dictionary says it is a 'grass snake'. Is biscia - a snake in general - or only one type of snake?
The infinitive "to cook" is "cucin-are" while the infinitive "to drink" is "b-ere". For all that most verbs in Italian are regular, the pattern they follow is a little different depending on how the infinitive ends.
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Rae.F Your scheme might confuse someone... if you say cucin-are, then it's ok, but not with f-are (do, make). In this case following your scheme, we have... fo, fi, fa (correct), fiamo, fate (correct), fano, instead of faccio, fai, fa, facciamo, fate, fanno. Bere doesn't work at all... you say b-ere, then it's not bo, bi, be, biamo, bete, bono as it looks like in your scheme. Correct is... bevo, bevi, beve, beviamo, bevete, bevono. A better example would be corr-ere (run), then it's enough add -o, -i, -e, -iamo, -ete, -ono. It depends on the verb. With -ire, same problem if you use the verb d-ire (say). Correct is dico, dici, dice, diciamo, dite, dicono. In your scheme, it would be do, di, de, diamo, dite (the only correct), dono.
Only when "I" cook.
CUCINARE
io cucino
tu cucini
lui cucina
noi cuciniamo
voi cucinate
loro cucinano
Thank you, thank you! I thought cucina was what a female cook did. or that it depended on whether you were cooking a fem. or masc. animal. A lingot to you for you help. You're welcome. ;-)
Yeah, verbs don't do gender to agree with nouns, only adjectives do that.
Duo must have visit Minahasa Land in North Sulawesi. Because here people there also cook snake (python)
I had fried rattlesnake in Texas in the 1990s. Imagine what fried fish would taste like if fish lived on land. Tasty, but lots of little bones like some fish.
Are there lots of snakes in Italy? Why is this an important aninal to know? What about rabbits, sheep, pigs first. As for cooking them, thats just plain weird.
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It's not feminine, these are different forms of the verb in present tense. Cucino means I cook, cucina means he/she/it cooks (either gender).
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But this is a verb. "Una cucina" is a noun and it can't be that meaning in this sentence because it wouldn't make sense.
Cucina is third-person singular of the verb "cucinare". As it's a regular -are ending verb, if you want to use third-person singular, in this case he or she cooks or the cook cooks, then remove -are and replace with -a, which makes Cucina. So it's nothing to do with the gender of the doer, it's the verb conjugation that makes it Cucina. Cucino would mean "I cook", as that's first-person singular conjugation, and if I were a man or woman, you still say cucino.
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"Il cuoco cuoce un serpente", in Italian is correct, but they don't know that, because they are not Italians, so I lost a heart. F...!
I said the same thing, and don't understand why it is wrong. Can anyone explain?
It's correct, but is not accepted by DL, and should be reported.
There is a difference in meaning. cucinare means everything involved in preparing food to produce a meal, while cuocere refers specifically to the application of extreme heat.