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"Chocolate cream"
Translation:Crema al cioccolato
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"Al" is A+IL (preposition + article). You will find them pretty often in Italian, it's barely impossible to say anything without things like AL, NEL, SUL, DEL... :/
At the beginning of the lesson for food on the main screen, they give tips/notes:
Dish di ingredient: the ingredient is the main or only component of the dish, e.g. "succo di limone" (lemon juice). In this case the article is never used before the ingredient. Dish con ingredient: the ingredient is a visible component of the dish or used as garnish, e.g. "fragole con panna" (strawberries with cream). In this case a definite article can be used before the ingredient. Dish a ingredient: the dish has been flavored with the ingredient, or tastes like the ingredient, e.g. "gelato al cioccolato" (chocolate ice cream). In this case the definite article is mandatory before the ingredient, forming an articulated preposition with a.
I wonder why, in the lightbulb lesson you're referring to, why the 3rd one they said 'dish a ingredient' instead of 'dish al ingredient'. The first and second ones they show us are 'dish di' and 'dish con', so why didn't they put 'dish al'? Not only did I miss the 'l' in their example, I wrote it down without the 'l' in my 'Notes about Italian' notebook, and so I got multiple answers wrong before going back and double checking. I see how I messed up, missing the 'l' in their 'gelato al cioccolato' example. But I still am wondering why not 'dish al'?
No we didn't. It's introduced slowly like "nel" All these grammatical explanations are not directly applicable in speaking. I feel like I am making a translation instead of saying it because I am used to saying it.
I hardly ever heard this in class, but for sure my professor didn't teach it. I guess it was one of those things we were meant to pick up.
Cream in english is panna in Italian. I don't think crema is the correct translation.
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Depends on what you mean by 'cream'. Most languages have several words for this, English doesn't. Panna is the white liquid made from milk (basically the fat of the milk) which obviously isn't what they mean here.
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Many languages have different words for these two things, English doesn't which might be confusing to native English speakers. 'Panna' is the white stuff that you make from milk (you let it stand around for a while and then the cream is at the top) while 'crema' is some dessert thing, no clue how to explain it in English.
I am confused. My Oxford Italian dictionary shows "cioccolata" which is correct?
According to my dictionary, cioccolata is chocolate only in the the sense of a drink - I am drinking (hot) chocolate.
Chocolate you eat is cioccolato.
I think it just depends on the sentence. No one would ever point out whether it is an 'o' or 'a' in an actual Italian conversation. Don't worry :)
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They are two different things, as jesslc said. cioccolato is solid, whereas cioccolata is liquid.
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Yes. Custard in italian is crema pasticciera, but it's commonly shortened. crema can also mean "ointment". To disambiguate, you can use pomata. panna means "cream", and when its whipped, it's montata.
Crema is not cream it is custard. Panna is cream. So says my Italian boyfriend. Possibly in the US you call custard cream but here in Europe they are very different things.
If the cream is feminine, why is the chocolate belonging to the cream masculine?
Isn't Il crema al cioccolato correct? Because in the tips section it is said that in Italian, we should never leave the 'the' 'il'
Don't like the constant reference to chocolate and chocolate cream, I don't eat it and the constant reference is making this a boring module.
Mine says that it was supposed to be Crema al cacao. Why was it cacao instead of cioccolato?
I typed Crema di cioccolato and they accepted it. Any explanation? Thanks!
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di would imply "made of", whereas al implies "tasting like". In this case, a cream made of chocolate tastes like chocolate, so you still convey the meaning... However, al is the commonly used preposition.
I put la crema al ciccolato and it said this was wrong and should be crema al ciccolato. Why no la?
when i moved my curser over the word cream - it reveals the word "panna" so why is it wrong if i used it
Dear Duolingo here is a message for you you say that you make this app better by studying thousands of people to make it work right I find that hard to believe because obviously you don't work with dyslexic people many times I get something wrong because it's plural I don't see it you don't give the option to where I can hear what I'm supposed to be looking at why does nit read everything why can't I hear it they have that option everywhere for dyslexic people even DMV is that would be so much better if it would at least allow you to touch the sentence and have it be read out loud think about it are smarter than most people making me mad so irritating I hurt my toe kicking something wearing flip-flops can you fix this
I am 52 years old and have never, ever, ever, come across chocolate custard before. I would much rather learn about things I actually eat.
Custard filled cannoli - chocolate one end and vanilla the other end. Very common where I come from.
I put crema al ciocollata and make it wrong, and then put cioccolato and wrong again Stupid
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70% of this comment section is just English speakers trying to figure out what grammatical gender is.
Couldn't they accept "ciocolatto" as a typo, like they do in other languages of this program when one mistype a word?
I think they only accept typos if there's only one mistake.
Ciocolatto has two mistakes - it should be double c and not double t.
they accept typos but only if there is a real typo. "latto" is the translation for "lacto". maybe thats the reason (I had it with another word but can´t remeber which :) )
"Al" is a preposition and "la" is the italian feminine pronoun. In other words, is the same difference between "of" and "the"
Does 'crema' mean 'caramel'?? Atleast thats what they have in gelaterias...
So that's chocolate ice cream, yet when it asks me to write the english translation it says I'm wrong because it should just be Chocolate cream
It is chocolate cream because it's "crema" al cioccolato. Chocolate ice cream will be gelato al cioccolato (ice cream = gelato, cream = crema)
Omitting one c when it should have been two, is a misspelling, not "the wrong word" as was claimed !
