"Le torte"
Translation:The cakes
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When I did the lesson with "torta", I thought perhaps it meant a cake looked like a turtle/tortoise.
Now that I've done this lesson, there's "tarts" in the mouseover, and that seems far more likely to be the origin.
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In German we've got the words "Torte" (singular; like black forest cake would fall in this category) und "Kuchen" :)
1) Usually cakes are sweet. 2) Usually pies consist of an outer pastry case, and inner savoury filling. Sometimes there is a pastry lid to the case.
Yes, but torte is usually always cake or "tart" such as a Pop Tart. It is pretty much never used to say cookie.
The cake = la torta
The cakes = le torte
Notice how the article (le/la) agrees with the word.
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so is it true that "torte" is pies and "torta" is cakes? because they just told me I was wrong
Torta is cake, torte is cakes.
As far as I'm aware, torta can mean cake or pie.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_grammar
Briefer answer: because it is plural and feminine.
How do you pronounce the final 'e' on words like "Le" and "torte", etc,? It seems like sometimes it's pronounced "eh" and sometimes "EY." Which is it? Or is it both?
Easy for Polish people. In our language "tort" means a birthday cake :)
They don't. Grammatical class is different from biological gender, and torta happens to be feminine because Latin. It also ends in an -a to show that it's feminine.
I am confused. What dicatates the difference between cake and pies of it has the same word.
Context. If someone points to a torta and it looks a cake, then translate it as cake. If someone points to a torta and it looks like a pie, translate it as pie. In reality, though, cakes and pies are kind of the same thing, so it doesn't matter.
