"The chicken is a bird."
Translation:Il pollo è un uccello.
February 9, 2013
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No.
The indefinite article un' is a shortening of una. It's only used before feminine nouns.
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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.