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- "The cook cooks a snake."
"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.
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! ;)
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.
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)
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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.
