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- "Lui prende i miei pantaloni."
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Well. Duolingo sure is teaching us vocabulary for any social situation we might encounter...
LOL
"Io lascio il ragazzo"-- for those times when you leave a boy
"Lei si mette i suoi vestiti e va a casa" --for those one-night stands
"Il tuo leone mangia il mio pinguino" --for those times when someone's lion eats your penguin
In Spanish "prende" is to set on fire. So much fun to get languages confused! ha ha
As soon as I saw this sentence, I knew we were in for some interesting conversation here!
I translated prendiamo un giornale as we take a newspaper but Duolingo says it is we get a newspaper so then I translate Lui prende I miei pantaloni as he gets my trousers and now Duolingo tells me it is takes!
Think of it as "obtains." The most common translation of that is "take," but it can be translated other ways. For example, in the sentence "we take the newspaper" -- which is old-fashioned English for "we have a subscription" -- we might now say "we get the newspaper." This is the same thing.
Other examples given in my Oxford Beginner's Italian Dictionary:
vai a prendere le posate = go and get the cutlery
prendere la palla = to catch the ball
prendi un caffè? = do you want to have a coffee? (used for food & drink)
Meanwhile, I agree it's tough to figure out what Duolingo will accept, however.
i thought prende could also mean 'take down' but it says that 'he takes down my trousers' is incorrect ;)
There's a bunch os useful examples with this verb on wordreference.com. Here is a link for anyone still a bit confused about this sentence... I hope it helps.
AgaOrl: prendere can certainly mean "to get" perhaps most commonly in a restaurant situation, so I don't see why this wouldn't be or isn't accepted.
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There is a difference in direction between get and take. "Get" should only be used in the sense of retrieving something. "Take" is moving something away from somewhere.
"He's getting my pants." should be an acceptable translation, and sure makes a lot more sense.
Wolf, it means that 'he takes my pants.' You can probably imagine any number of scenarios where it'd make sense: perhaps his own were torn and he needed mine; perhaps his were stolen and I lent him mine; perhaps he stole mine, etc. etc. Context is everything.
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ok... for "Lui prende un pomodoro" the possible outcomes were "he gets a tomato" and "he takes a tomato". Why doesn't "He gets my pants" work as well for this "lui prende i miei pantaloni"?
Prendi questa mano Zingara, means hold my hand, get is a bad word for this meaning.
"He gets my pants" is not correct... has to be "He takes my pants." Huh.
In an example with shoes, it translated to "he wears my shoes", but that was wrong here. How to know the difference?
Could you tell me what is the difference between prendere and portiere?? Why portiere is means do wear???
