"The chicken is a bird."
Translation:Il pollo è un uccello.
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I think pollo can refer to either the animal or the meat (you can see it in a menu in Italy) You can also say "La gallina" (=chicken, the animal) Il gallo = rooster
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought "il pollo" was the chicken you eat as in food, e.g. chicken wings, and "la gallina/il gallo" was the actual animal the chicken
No.
The indefinite article un' is a shortening of una. It's only used before feminine nouns.
When do you use un instead of uno or una. I thought since uccello ends in an o, you use uno.
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uccello is masculine so you should use un and not una.
uno is used when a masculine word starts with s+consonant or z (and a few other words explained here: https://blogs.transparent.com/italian/how-to-use-uno-in-italian/)
Nope, pollo = young cock or chicken. In Italian there isn't usually any distinction between an animal and its meat; according to http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/pollo/ the term is a valid generalization for the domestic gallus species raised as food stock.
