90 Comments
2005
From italian-verbs.com
bollire
io bollo
tu bolli
lui/lei bolle
noi bolliamo
voi bollite
loro bollono
If you're a native in a romance language and don't know how to conjugate verbs I feel sad for you
- You don't need to know how to conjugate each pronoun for each conjugation (-are, -ere, -ire) for each tense to communicate.
- All romance languages have dialects (and italian is a GREAT example), and some of them don't actually use all the pronouns, for example me: I'm Brazilian and most Brazilian can't conjugate "vós" ("you", pl. form), because we use "vocês" instead, and "vocês" use the conjugation of "eles" (they), so "vós" and its conjugations are never used.
- 319
Thank you. I was wondering about "bolle", expected "bolla". Now I see that it's from "bollire", not "bollare". So it's another "verb family". Bollire, mangiare.
Yeah for some reason the thought of this sentence just made me unexplicably uncomfortable...
Not ferment, but if someone is making it/a custsrd on the stove, then it makes sense to be able to draw atrention to impending disaster!
It depends on whether it is cream with chocolate liqueur or actual chocolate cream. (feedback from the kitchen).
the name of the verb doesn't pop though... "bolle" is the third person in the present tense but it does not pop the name of the verb or it's conjugation.
- 2005
ci in Italian is pronounced like ch in English.
cioccolato is choh-koh-lah-toh.
thanks! once i find out what it is, i will send you some chocolate cream :)
What in the world is "chocolate cream"???? Is that something like "hot chocolate" or "chocolate milk"?
I can explain you what I mean with "crema al cioccolato" in Italian, so you can translate it.
I can prepare "crema" (for desserts) with egg, milk, sugar, floor and lemon skin, maybe some butter as well I forgot. If I don't use the lemon skin and use the chocolate and maybe some other flavour like vanilla, I get a "crema al cioccolato" to fill croissant and other pastries.
How would you call it?
I'd just call it "YUM"! Or I'd call YOU, so you could make it and invite me over! :)
Yep. Chocolate cream, chocolate filling... For eclairs or profiteroles. Makes sense to me.
Does chocolate cream abound in Italy? Seems weird that we learn it as vocab right up there with "apple" and "plate."
Yes, its very popular and frequently eaten in croissants for breakfast. Nutella is similar and equally popular and that comes from italy, but it is hazelnut so although similar, it is not actually "crema al cioccolato"
- 11
If you just eat it, it would be called chocolate pudding. If you spread it on top of a cake, cookie or pastry it would be called chocolate icing. If it goes inside a pastry it would be called chocolate filling or perhaps chocolate custard. There is no such thing as chocolate cream.
I thought it might mean chocolate sauce but chocolate cream or chocolate filling , from your description
Numerous incarnations of chocolate cream. One of the most common becomes a filling for chocolate pie or custard.
- 407
I don't know but sometimes you get marked wrong for calling it chocolate cream.
I thought I was on a winner with the "chocolate cream" working in most answers, but I was marked wrong when they changed the answer to "chocolate custard" all of a sudden. I have no idea why custard is a synonym for cream. Weird.
- 2005
"Custard" and "cream" are not typically used synonymously in English except in specific contexts such as cream puff or Boston cream pie.
The issue here is that Duo has been translating "crema" the less common way and they are finally working on that issue, probably after numerous users have filed reports. It complicates matters that the usage in Italian does not neatly correspond to the usage in English (not that we should expect it to anyway).
Generally speaking, though, "panna" is more akin to the liquid cream you put in your coffee and "crema" is more akin to custard. Although "crema di latte" is coffee creamer, but "crema" ultimately refers to milkfat while "panna" is named for the film that settles on top of milk.
- 2005
That's just the idiom.
In English we say "flavor food", in Italian they say "food to the flavor".
For example: chocolate cream vs crema al cioccolato.
In English, we say "ingredient food", in Italian they say "food of ingredient".
For example: apple pie vs torta di mele.
- 2005
In English, that sounds like you made something creamy out of chocolate. The proper translation of would actually be "chocolate custard."
al is "at the". But it isn't "cream at the chocolate boils" I know there's an explanation that I'm forgetting. Anyone?
- 2005
If Italian is anything like Spanish (and neither are like English) then instead of being able to say (for example) "orange juice" where what you mean is "juice made from oranges", you must say "jugo de naranja". I would imagine that where Spanish uses "de", Italian uses an appropriate form of "al".
Hello, who can help me please? I don't know what is cream boils or crema al bolle?
- 2005
Boils is the verb! The chocolate cream boils, as in is boiling or was boiling or boiled (different tenses, but same action).
I put he boils the chocolate cream, since the personal pronoun can sometimes be omitted. How can you tell that this sentence meant 'the chocolate cream boils' and not 'he/she boils chocolate cream'?
- 2005
Word order. Like English, Italian declarative sentences are Subject-Verb[-Object]. If it were "He boils the chocolate cream," it would be "[Lui] bolle la crema al cioccolato."
Is there some rule to switching words around and leaving others out in the same sentance when speaking Italian?
I wrote "the boiled chocolate cream", can you explain why it's not correct?
- 2005
"The boiled chocolate cream" is a noun phrase where "boiled" is an adjective modifying "chocolate cream". "La crema al cioccolato bolle" is a full sentence where "bolle" is a verb. "The chocolate cream boils/is boiling".
- 2005
:-)
The American flag doesn't really count. I am a native English speaker, but I thought I would try the Spanish-to-English module. So in a way, I've got Spanish listed twice.
- 2005
They say "food a(+definite article) flavor" and we say "flavor food."
crema al cioccolato = chocolate cream
torta alla vaniglia = vanilla cake
gelato al caffè = coffee ice cream
It appears that chocolate can be either masculine (ending in "o") or feminine (ending in "a"). When do you use each?
- 2005
They're both nouns, so the difference is in usage, not in agreement with other nouns.
Generally the masculine form is for actual chocolate (like chocolate bars, chocolate chips, etc.) and the feminine form is for the beverage (like hot chocolate: "cioccolata calda").
It is creme before chocolate so it should be the cream chocolate boils!! Unless this is like latina and the words are put of order.
- 2005
It's not "out of order", it's just a different order. English and Italian are two different languages from two different families. They follow different grammar rules. English is a Germanic language and Italian (like Spanish) is a Romance language, meaning they come from Latin.
"crema al cioccolato" is how they say "chocolate cream" in Italian. They say "food a(+definite article) flavor" and we say "flavor food."
crema al cioccolato = chocolate cream
torta alla vaniglia = vanilla cake
gelato al caffè = coffee ice cream
- 2005
Different language, different rules and quirks. In English, we just put the words right next to each other as "flavor food" -- chocolate cake, butterscotch pudding, etc. In Italian, they say "food at the flavor" -- crema al cioccolato, torta alla vaniglia, etc.
- 2005
"La crema al cioccolate bolle" or "La crema al cioccolate sta bollente" if you really want to put emphasis on it.
I taught it was cream chocolate, but the answer is given chocolate cream. I am bit confused with this.
- 2005
In English, the only time the "cream" would come first would be like "creamed corn" or "creamed spinach", where "creamed" is an adjective. The corn/spinach has been creamed. Or perhaps "cream of tomato soup".
Chocolate cream is cream that tastes like chocolate. "Chocolate" is in the adjective position.
- 2005
There are no human beings listening. It's voice recognition software and the technology behind that still has a long way to go.
- 2005
What do you mean "flipped"? Different languages have different grammar rules.
- 319
I assume that you have read the other comments and therefore know that it is about "chocolate cream" or "chocolate custard". This dish is prepared in a pan on the stove and the custard is now boiling. It is ready. Take the pan off the heat before it burns.
