"Your duck is my dinner."

Translation: La tua anatra è la mia cena.

[MattDiSanto]

Bastardo! Teach me possession but spare my water fowl.

[formaggiamente]

This one just gave me a good laugh. Bravo!

[al.hound]

sometimes duolingo can be so hurtful :)

[Elena18]

I wonder if this could be an Italian saying....something like when we say in English "one man's __ is another's _"? (or is it just a brillaint duolingo creation)? :) Poor ducky....

[MiladiesSe]

Yes...how dare you cut me off in traffic! I swear your duck is my dinner! Lol.

[toubabdoc]

A dinner of Donald! Daisy is next!

[marziotta]

As far as I know, no Italian saying.

[MMCK84]

... i see what you did here Duolingo ... ;)

[Briguy84]

So why wouldn't it be correct if I put La tua arantra è mio cena instead of La tua arantra è il mio cena? Is it because you're gaining possession of someone else's stuff?

[BryanCreer]

From the Esperanto course -
Mi fartas bone, ĉar mi havas anason - I am doing well because I have a duck.

[Nazem13]

Be careful...if it became my dinner you willn't do well anymore^_^

[Duolingobirb]

This sentence is pure fowl play...

[Orelion]

Well his goose is cooked.

[Daisy.girl]

that's just pure evil! Duolingo is evil :)

[paulnew]

La sua it is also a possible and correct answer because it may be refering in a formal way to the person.

[MaryMuncey]

Just wondering here... I'm on a review of this section after doing one where there are a lot of contractions, so I tried "la tu'anatra" and it was marked wrong. Can someone explain why?

[tolemak]

There's no contraction for the pronom tu. The contractions are for the articles Le and La = l'acqua

[spanishcabbage]

Ok, I'm confused. In a different sentence, when I put "il mio" it was wrong, so on this sentence, I didn't put "la mia", I only put "mia", but it said that was wrong, and that I needed the la.

[toubabdoc]

In America we have Donald Duck. In Italy is it Frank Anatra?

[HeruMornie]

No, that's Frank Sinatra. :D Note the reflexive verb there! ;)

[Lautaro-]

That's horrible... Poor duck.

Why not ''your dog is my dinner?''

[zenveg]

Because we're not studying Vietnamese.

[LeaAnne121]

OMG! That's so not politically correct, and so hysterical!!! Bravo!

[HeruMornie]

Because dogs bite back!

[HouseRulez]

Is "la cena mia" incorrect?

[ChantelLop]

Duolingo is a bird .. hes killing if all other bird kind

[Huy.B]

Why is "La tua anatra è mia cena " incorrect? I thought after è it's optional to add the article.

[Marko246521]

1) Why is the answer, “La tua anatra è mia cena”, not correct when it is common to omit the definite article from the possessive adjective after forms of the verb essere?

2) What’s everyone’s problem with eating duck? Why should it be worse than eating a chicken, cow, lamb or pig?

[Jenitis]

La tua anatra e' il mio pranzo..... can someone tell me .... would that be a wrong way of saying it and why

[tolemak]

Pranzo = lunch. Cena = dinner

[PHScanes]

Sadic father to his little daughter

[nikola461987]

Well if you do your practises tired(like i do) you will have a good laugh every now and then with duo

[Vasa_me]

Thats wonderful. Love Duolingo

[RayMK]

LMAO BRILLIANT!!!

[kwall10]

The word antara doesn't even conjure up an image resembling a duck! More like a saracen sword!

[Tollkirsche]

Could someone comment on the reason why this would be wrong? L'anatra tua e la mia cena

[Chel451498]

Possessive pronouns always* go in front of what they are possessing in English and Italian; your duck, my cat, his dog, so --> la tua anatra, il mio gatto, il suo cane.

*with the caveat of there are also always exceptions :-)

I'm also assuming you aren't referring to e vs è. Good Luck!

[PlateOfFrogs]

Why not just have some cheese and quackers?

[Katerina269226]

Sounds aggressive

[KTo228]

Is this from Jules Verne, I've never read the book but in the film "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", the villain eats the hero's pet duck.