"La stazione si trova nel mezzo della città."
Translation:The station is in the middle of the city.
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Citta' does not have the correct pronunciation in the audio (the stress is on the beginning of the word, it should be on the end).
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what is the difference between something being found and something being located? I wrote One finds the station in the middle of the city, is it something to do with active and passive?
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i agree…. that should be accepted as correct. I hope you"ve reported it… I wrote… The station is situated in the middle of the city…. that too was not accepted.
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A more litteral translation is probably "The station finds itself in the middle of the city."
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I also has a problem with the generic, "you can find the station in the middle of the city"
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I put situated and it was marked wrong. Shall I complain to the management?
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i certainly did! I wrote that as well… and lost a heart !
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I don't understand why "the station is found in the middle..." is not correct. Si trove = one finds?
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I wrote, "The station is to be found in the middle of the city". Marked wrong, but I have reported it.
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Would love to hear from a native Italian if it could be translated that way because that's how I translated it as well.
Why is it 'mezzo' and not 'mezza' given all the nouns in this sentence are feminine?
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'Mezzo' means middle (actually "half"), and it's not acting as an adjective, modifying any of the words on the page, so it doesn't change form.
But if a woman is, for example, 'half Italian', then she is 'una mezza italiana'...
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there, "mezza" modifies "italiana", so the 'o' changes to an 'a'. In the duolingo sentence, "mezzo" is a noun, not modifying anything. Like saying "I'll take the middle" (noun) vs. "I'll take the middle piece" (adjective).
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"Metà italiana" is a better translation for "half Italian"...
Duo lingo is not very good at doing fluid translation. It only really likes very literal accounts.
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True. And understandable: every acceptable translation has to be added by hand to some list, I guess. The freer the translations accepted, the longer and more time-consuming the list.
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So is 'in the city centre' incorrect? DL doesn't like it!
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The given answer doesn't seem as accurate ad a number of variations given below using found. My version was " can be found".
