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From italian-verbs.com
bollire
io bollo
tu bolli
lui/lei bolle
noi bolliamo
voi bollite
loro bollono
I literally stared at this like.... Boil? Boil the cream?! I was questioning myself like, "is that really what this is saying?"
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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.
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"
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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
Julia Child, Creme Patissiere, The French Chef Cookbook. Vanilla, not chocolate, for filling cream puffs or eclairs. Used to make them. It is not difficult. Thank you so much for listing the ingredients, it made me remember. Pulled out my cookbook to make sure of the name. Alas, I cannot make the diacritical marks on my US keyboard.
Numerous incarnations of chocolate cream. One of the most common becomes a filling for chocolate pie or custard.
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.
"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.
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 :)
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.
Io bollisco, tu bollisci, lei bollisce, noi bolliamo, voi bollite, loro bolliscono
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?
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?
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'?
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?
"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".
:-)
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
"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.
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.
Sometimes Duolinguo translates "crema" as "cream", sometimes as "custard". Now I used custard because I've learned that Duolinguo wants it - and now it's wrong. Make up your mind or let both be OK!
This forum is for learners to help each other with the lessons. This is not the place to give feedback to the course contributors.
The way the site is set up, each prompt has its own answer database. The course contributors must manually enter each possible answer into each prompt's database individually. There are bound to be oversights and inconsistencies between prompts. If an answer that was marked correct in one prompt is marked incorrect in another prompt, double-check that you did not make any other errors or typos or have any extra spaces, and flag it and report "My answer should be accepted."
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Can you also use this phrase in Italian to say "The chocolate cream is boiling"? I know what translation DL is asking for, just curious if that's the only way to say it
Yes, absolutely. Italian says "bolle" where English would say "boils" or "is boiling". If you really want to emphasize that it's actively boiling right now (so let me get back to you because I need to keep an eye on it), that would be "sta bollendo".
