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- "The girls eat the cakes."
"The girls eat the cakes."
Translation:Le ragazze mangiano le torte.
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Bambine is little girls, babies. Ragazze are girls in general but usually the word for older girls
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Don't know about the 'panini' but but in this case we are asked to translate 'the cakes' = le torte.
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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.
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I have the correct answer and it was marked wrong. What do I do to get my score changed?