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- "Le farfalle"
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It would be good pasta if it was made with butter and shaped like flies !
1992
Yeah, but the Romance language words sound so much prettier: farfalla, mariposa, papillon...whereas English is stuck with "butterfly."
Why doesn't Le farfalle also translate as "butterflies' as well as "the butterflies"?
could someone explain the difference between (pardon spelling)
Gli I Le
Where do I use them, I think they are all plurals of 'the' Thanks (:
I and gli plural masculin, le plural feminin. When you find the article lo its plural is gli and i it's for il, le for la
- 2119
These links should tell you all you need to know:
http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare110a.htm
http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/italian-definite-article-forms.htm
I think papillon is a bow tie or cravate, and they borrowed the French word for butterfly to describe it.
Papillon is referring to a piece of men's accessory - the thing they sometimes wear instead of a tie
farfalle is also the name for a specific shape of pasta, in English often referred to as bow-ties. Since this is the food section, what is one supposed to think?
- 2119
In English we call them bow-ties, but they also resemble butterflies, after which they are named.
It seems like a glitch that Duo gave you this question while you were specifically covering food.
I was marked wrong because I did not capitalize the definite article "the" in my response. The correct answer is incorrect, Duolingo!
Farfalle is called bowtie pasta, and I het into fights over whether it is nowtie or butterfly. Now I can tell them this very simply.
Something is going rong with anser i write it write and it seams like wrong answer
