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- "Non sono caramelle."
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Since caramelle is plural, it makes more sense to use the plural subject pronoun "they"... I think.
Technically, it could be a correct translation, but in context, it's less likely; a pronoun would have cleared up the ambiguity nicely.
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It would say " I am not candies", not "I am not candy". Caramelle is plural so that is why "sono" should be recognised as 'they' rather than 'I'. (As moncoeur3 stated above.)
Yes it is wrong please no one else write the wrong answers and pkease don't just say the answers help us work it out, thank you!
You are replying multiple times to comments that are more than 6 years old. Please don't spam the forum like that.
I am not candy doas not help us we need to learn so i would like to see helpful comments i will check them all soon and also i would like help as well thank you!
i would like help as well
If you ask specific questions, we can provide answers.
Buttons, pills, rocks, any number of things a small child could mistake for something sweet and put in their mouth.
... said the orc to his ogre, pointing at the goblins... "They" doesn't refer to objects.
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
Confused one time I enter "they are not sweets" and its wrong then I enter " there are no sweets" and its wrong
Apparently the team fixed the issue in the 4 years since the previous comment was left.
I put sweets, as they were acepting the english, as we do not say candy. And i was marked as wrong.
Just for completeness, in Australia we normally use the word " lolly/lollies" rather than sweets (=desert) or candy (=advective candy cane, eye candy)
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.
There needs to be consideration of UK v US English - a sweet in UK is a candy in the US
I translated "they are not THE candies" rather than "they are not candies" and got it wrong.
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".
la caramella is the word for candy in general, or at least a type of candy.
il caramello is caramel, the flavor/substance.
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.
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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.
No.
la caramella is the word for candy in general, or at least a type of candy.
il caramello is caramel, the flavor/substance.
The correct traslate to caramelle is candies? ... i write it isn't candies and lost a heart, the "correct" sentes was it isn't candy, i'm confused
'They aren't candies' if you are treating the candies as plural discrete objects. 'It isn't candy' if you are treating the pile of candy as a singular object. But 'It isn't candies' mixes singular and plural and thus doesn't work.
If you said that and it was wrong it's because the instructions say to repeat the sentence, not to translate it
"They" is a general-purpose 3rd person plural pronoun. There is no reason to think we're talking about people. They could be marbles or blobs of wax. "Don't eat them, they're not candy."
I tried "I am not candies" and that was marked wrong but I think it could be correct.
If your answer is otherwise free of errors and typos, you can flag it after it rejects your answer and report "My answer should be accepted."
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Non sono is once translated as they are not and the other time asi they aren't. How am I suppose to know when should I write which???
They ought to be equally accepted, but sometimes Duolingo has trouble with contractions.
You can always fill out a bug report:
https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/204728264-How-do-I-report-a-bug-
'candies' is American. not proper English, it should not be marked incorrect
The American dialects of the English language are just as valid as the British dialects of the English language. And Duolingo is an American company.
I have no idea. It should be according to the translation just up there, what reason did it give for being wrong? And did you report it?
In Scotland we use sweety and the plural sweeties but Duo doesn't accept these terms despite reporting many times.
If I have to translate to/from American, into Italian, then I will have to do a course in American English first...for pity sake. Why do I have to translate; caramelle to candies, when in English it is; caramels? Which is marked as incorrect.
Because Duolingo is an American company. Of course things would be in American English.
Yes, it's an American company. But it deals with thirty odd different languages from around the world. I'm sure some allowance can be made within the algorithm, for English speakers, given that it is the primary language that is being translated to and from. Remember English is spoken by multi-national countries all-over, and I am not sure how many of them call; a sweet, candy....
It's not a matter of the correction algorithm. It's a matter of a small team of volunteers manually adding acceptable answers to the database. You're free to flag an otherwise error-free answer that got marked wrong and report "My answer should be accepted" but you can't expect them to just know all of the dialectal variations from every English-speaking country.
I most certainly appreciate the effort that the volunteers put into making duolingo an excellent learning tool. I had already flagged my answer, before placing my comment. I hope you can forgive my ignorance of the inner workings of the duolingo processes.
I answered candies and lost a heart for making it plural. I thought caramelle was plural. Confusing.
"Caramelle" is plural. The official correct answer is "They are not candies." Either you made a typo or you encountered a glitch.
I wrote 'They are not candies.' But I am curious if I can also use 'Those are not candies.' a much more appropriate translation since the third person 'they' is used to pertain for people and 'those' for things. What do you think?
"They" can refer to both people and things. "These" are for people or things that are specifically over here. "Those" are for people or things that are specifically over there.
This girl is tying her shoe.
These girls (They) are working on a project.
That boy is playing the violin.
Those boys (They) are writing essays.
This chair is really soft.
These chairs (They/These) are for sale.
Those chairs (They/Those) are getting reupholstered.
Translation error again in the program plural in anver an sigular in translation
That's an entirely different thing. "They are not candies" (which is what this lesson says) means that a group of objects are not candies, but rather something else. Saying "There are no candies" means that candies are not present within a defined location.
Because "They are not candies" means that "they" are something else "There are no candies" just states that well, there are no candies, and could mean that there were some candies, but they are gone. Or, that they were never there.
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Caramela doesn't mean caramel MichaelDeR14, as has been several times in this thread already it is the Italian word for candy/sweet/lolly. Caramel is a specific type of candy/sweet/lolly in English. Just because words in other languages look like English words doesn't always mean that they mean the same thing.
