"The girl does a cartwheel."
Translation:La ragazza fa la ruota.
February 19, 2013
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It seems unfair to ask for a translation of an idiomatic expression without any introduction.
why in this case 'a' is translated as 'la' and not 'una'? Is that a mistake or not?
The sentence doesn't mean the girl is building a wheel for a cart, but rather this:
http://cheerleading.about.com/od/gymnasticsandtumbling/l/bl_cartwheel.htm
In English that's called "doing a cartwheel"; in Italian "fare la ruota". Both are entirely idiomatic expressions.
