"The girls eat the cakes."
Translation:Le ragazze mangiano le torte.
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il ragazzo = the boy - i ragazzi = the boys
la ragazza = the girl - le ragazze = the girls
You may want to read up on the various forms of the Italian definite article at e.g. ThoughCo
Why mangiano, and not mangiamo. Girls are a we, as a group of them. I keep getting this wrong.
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Bambine is little girls, babies. Ragazze are girls in general but usually the word for older girls
Why can you say "Mangio panini" and not "le ragazze mangiano torte"? In which case the article can be left out?
Don't know about the 'panini' but but in this case we are asked to translate 'the cakes' = le torte.
Same question- how do you know which to use (La or le) on a generic word neither masculine or feminine?
All nouns are either masculine or feminine: una torta - a cake (feminine), un panino - a sandwich (masculine). You just have to learn the gender as you learn the word.
There are many different words for 'the' depending on the gender, number and beginning letter of the following word.
Masculine singular - il
Masculine singular which begins with a z, s+consonant, ps, x, gn - lo
Masculine singular when starting with a vowel - l'
Feminine singular - la
Masculine plural - i
Masculine plural where the singular would have taken lo or l' - gli
Feminine plural - le
As girls (ragazze) and cakes (torte) are both feminine plural, we use 'le' for both of them.
