"Non sono caramelle."
Translation:They are not candies.
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This is what you tell gli ragazzi when they find grandma's old medicine cabinet. Thanks again, Green Owl!
You are right. It is "i ragazzi", not "gli ragazzi".
Rules for the definite article:
https://i.imgur.com/aJ7Qlgb.jpg
Rules for the indefinite article:
Masculine
https://i.imgur.com/ioiRcSS.png
Feminine
https://i.imgur.com/7WZMfoO.png
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I am in England and therefore using the English for what Americans call candy(ies), which is sweet(s).The translation should reflect the market it is being used in or else accept the variations that are used to acknowledge that the same thing is being referred to.Therefore my translation should have been accepted as correct.
Posting in here does little good. Instead, when it marks you wrong, flag it and select the "My answer should have been accepted" option.
Instead of 'they are not candies', can't it be 'these are not candies'? Wouldn't that make more sense? As candies are objects? And, If I DO want to say 'these are not candies' in Italian, would I still say 'non sono caramelle', or is there another pronoun for 'these'?
"They" is the plural of "he/she/it" in English, so "They are not candies" is perfectly fine.
Furthermore, "this/these" and "that/those" (in many, many languages) encode additional information: whether the topic of conversation is close to or distant from the speaker.
la caramella is the word for candy in general, or at least a type of candy.
il caramello is caramel, the flavor/substance.
I am in Australia. We do not use the word 'candy' or 'candies' which is American English, but rather lollies. Candy is a specific type of lolly. I have been using lolly throughout, each time accepted by Duolingo, but 'lollies' was not accepted here.
Assuming you didn't have any typos, you'll need to flag the lesson before you move on to the next one and report "My answer should be accepted." Each lesson has its own answer database that the course contributors manually curate individually. There are bound to be oversights.
If you'd say "those are not candies" would the sentence be any different?
Yes. "Those" or "these" involve "quelli" or "queste", which can not be omitted from the subject.
Anything that follows the verb "to be" will always agree with the subject. If it's "Sono [singular thing]" then it can only be "I am", and if it's "Sono [plural things]" then it can only be "they are".
By the number of the object and by the context: "caramelle" is plural, so it hardly would refer to "I".
It's called "false friends". Two words in two different languages look and sound very similar to each other, but have different meanings in each language. You can't assume it must mean the same thing in both languages just because they're so similar.
I think the word 'sweets' should also be acceptable as correct, as we do not refer to caramelle as 'candies' in the UK.
What was the rest of your answer? From now on, please either copy and paste or take a screenshot of your full, exact answer so we can help you see the real reason why it marked you wrong.
