"I nostri gatti non bevono acqua."

Translation: Our cats do not drink water.

[Elena18]

Interesting....I wonder what they drink? :) Forse birra?

[Rosadowney]

they must be the weirdest cats on earth and parched

[Rosadowney]

i mean who does not drink WATER!!!

[dariocravero]

haha http://chelleshockk.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/cat_drinking_beer_watch_tv.jpg LOL

[Yaya464450]

Loro bevono latte

[SavvyCL]

They are alien cats. They drink cement.

[anzobanzo]

I was drinking water whilst reading this. Big mistake!

[zenito]

they don't drink water, only single malt whisky

[ronduolingo]

Hagrid will take care of them.

[cedarfall]

yasss
another harry potter fan

[Prof_T_Entee]

And beer. Always beer.

[_.8Kayla8._]

Pretty sure thats a referebce from harry potter and the goblet of fire

[jesedmoga]

Are... are they ok?

[chacham2]

I imagine an upper class lady saying this with her nose upturned.

[notjillian]

"Our cats don't drink water. We don't believe in that."

[anthonydnk]

Russian cats?? :D

[Prof_T_Entee]

More like Irish.

[thohan99]

Australian.

[idanlipin]

You really should take them to the vet

[simon486678]

To the wet?

[Hopejt]

Only champagne, darling ;)

[a-muktar]

They must be hydrophobic.

[thohan99]

They're hydroponic. Like tomatoes.

[PawlaMarie]

Poor kitties!

[Lunari9]

P l e a se tell me they don't drink oil...

[apricotdaydream]

I can't wait to turn 18 and be able to drink! After so many years of eating, I'm parched. Ive heard very good things about water

[BunAteMyHomework]

They drink diet cokes.

[VipulKapoo]

Luxury cats. Feed em milk only. Full organic please

[GraceShepherd01]

Look out for some dead cats then

[TeresaandR709882]

Why do the fish drink water and the cats dont?

[ksztopciowna]

I have a question about this sentance - why do we use acqua, not l'acqua?

[Asharii]

This sentence is saying that the cats in question do not drink any water at all. If this sentence used "l'acqua" it would imply that the cats drink some other water (Think having a specific dish that they don't drink from that the water is contained in, but would drink from some other dish)

[chambln]

"Bevo acqua" is "I drink water"

"Bevo l'acqua" is "I drink the water

Hope that helps.

[kieroid]

doesn't really help me because my understanding was that "bevono l'acqua" is very often translated as "they drink water"...as a matter of fact, here at duolingo if my memory serves me correctly, I have gotten several questions wrong by not including some form of article(l', il, etc.) even when the translation they are asking for in English includes no article

[Hmowry]

I don't know if this is the same, but here's what a moderator posted on a different question: when any attribute (possessive included) is alone in predicate position (the form "A is B") the article can be omitted. This sentence is A B, so the l' isn't needed?
I see this post is really old, but maybe it'll help someone else.

[Kgm_7]

Well I guess your cats are not healthy...

[TheGandalf]

Hehe, forse i gatti bevono succo, o forse birra o zuppa? ;)

[gavin_otter]

don't and do not are the same no?

[TFST39]

Don't is just a contraction of do not, they're exactly the same in english, so you can't distinguish when translating with Italian.

[ElizabethVan]

forse latte! (:

[Sofia6200]

How are they still alive...

[LyndaB82]

I hate these cartoon characters

[RutaSli]

Who else came here for comments?

[Karly1961]

Something I find difficult is that many of the sentences do not make sense, which actually hampers my learning process. Even if more difficult I would prefer a dialogue that us believable e.g. i gatti non bevano vino