"The cook has the bottles."

Translation: Il cuoco ha le bottiglie.

[Lovro]

I don't understand when is it "gli" when "i" and when "le"?
Totally confused about it... :s

[naten]

"le" before feminine plural. "gli" before masculine plural starting with a vowel or with s+consonant, z. "i" before all other masculine plural.

[Lovro]

great! :) thx a lot! :)

[gabimaa]

Thank u!

[Derek623439]

gli when the sustantive starts with s, i when starts with a vowel ( mp) and le (fp)

[mjobko]

I'm still confused on Cuoco vs Cuoca… it tells me I'm wrong most of the time

[lindsdav]

What is imbottiglia? This is what it suggests when you hover over bottles.

[Cara-Lee]

Probably the verb "to bottle" conjugated for third person singular

[Canistri]

the sentence was repeated

[Thormation]

Actually one of the copies started with "cuoca" instead of "cuoco".

[Seif..]

Why does cuoco becomes cuochi in plural ? is there a rule or something ? [they added an H after the c]

[iamacowgil]

An "h" was probably added because if you just added and "i" it would become "cuoci", pronounced "kwoh-see" instead of "kwoh-key". So, it was probably added to maintain the "k" sound and not change to an "s" sound.

[SongbirdT.]

So cuoca becomes cuoche in the plural to maintain the 'kuh' sound that is in the singular of cuoca or cuoco?

[Altair0315]

I typed the above sentence, but changed it when I held the arrow over the words and it told me to put "il imbottiglia."

[deactivated user]

It says "to bottle" (verb). Imbottigliare means to bottle

[iamacowgil]

I used "la cuoca ha le bottiglie" and it was right, but the translation at the top of the page says "il cuoco ha le bottiglie." When would I use the feminine versus the masculine? Would the masculine be specifically a man or whomever if you don't know the gender, and the feminine be strictly for a female cook? Thanks.

[cindyarndt1]

le vs il?

[BethanyIwu]

I thought it would be bottiglia

[ReynaAbeja]

Oops. Difference of an O vs an A

[UlooktDontDenyit]

U looked