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- "La frutta ha un gusto dolce."
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Hi, I've seen "la frutta" and I've seen "il frutto". What's the difference?!?!?! Why is one feminine and one masculine, while they are both singular? Thanks
La Frutta is a fruit that grows on trees and bushes whereas il frutto refers more to things that are a product of something. eg income, monetary interest on investment, results etc. The masculine form is also used in such phrases as "frutti di mare" = seafood and "è frutto della tua imaginazione" = it is the fruit of your imagination.
la mela è "un frutto": masculine and singular "il frutto" del melo è la mela : masculine and singular "i frutti" dell'aranceto =masculine and plural metti "la frutta" in tavola=feminine and plural
but it is a difficult issue even for a native:
Frutto / frutta --> frutti / frutte: qui le differenze di significato sono molto definite. Il maschile singolare si impiega per il singolo 'prodotto delle piante derivato dal fiore' oppure in senso figurato: il frutto delle mie fatiche, e il maschile plurale ne continua tali significati. La frutta designa la categoria alimentare, usato talvolta anche come forma plurale: molte frutta; il corrispondente femminile plurale frutte esiste ma è desueto.
La frutta is used for when you have "a" this means the. Il is is just like this but with "o"
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I found this weird as well. I know that it's literally "the fruit has a sweet taste" but when translating it into English, that doesn't sound natural at all.
Because in italian, the adjective comes befor the word so, “dolce gusto” wich translates to “sweet taste” is correct. And “gusto dolce” wich translates to “taste sweet” is wrong because it makes no sense in the sentence.
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No, in Italian the adjectives come behind the noun. There are exceptions such as ordinal numbers. dolce is not such an exception.
I'm confused, why are you sometimes able to omit some words while other times they're mandatory and how are you suppose to know which is which?
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I agree! Sometimes I put in the article and I get an answer " you could also say " without the article, and sometimes I don't use the article and I' m told that my answer is incorrect because I didn't use the article??
Why it is translated as the fruits, while it is "la frutta" femminila singulare. While the plurale should be "le frutte, which is the fruits. Plural femminila. Am confused of this
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The fruit becomes a single generic group (composed of multiple pieces--such as in. "this Orange TREE is great. It has a sweet fruit." (It grows a sweet orange could be substituted). This is the generic and is usually seen in English in phrases such as "The owl is a wise old bird!"
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In another part of this lesson I was told gusto meant flavour not Taste. I thought sapore meant flavour. Here I am told gusto means taste. Can it mean both?
I agree. In comparable sentences, "X is sweet" is sometimes accepted, and sometimes marked as wrong.
Ma é in plurale perché mi dice che in inglese si scrive "the fruit" si dovrebbe scrivere "the fruits" la frutta
In english fruit is plural so we can't say the fruit has......it must be the piece of fruit has .....
surely it should be "the fruit tastes sweet" not "the fruit has a sweet taste".
the latter is the literal translation, since the verb here is 'to have' and not 'to taste'.
In education we call it interpretation not translation. We no longer have translators but interpretors
