"Le piante muoiono senza acqua."
Translation:Plants die without water.
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I am not an Italian grammarian, but as a native speaker I can tell you that "senz'acqua" sounds much more natural and is far likelier to be heard than "senza acqua". In fact, I don't even know if "senza acqua" is correct.. but I don't think so.
The first suggestion presenting "water" is incorrect in this situation. As it is a new word I am not sure whether it is relevant to other sentences.
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This is about the translation of "le piante" - the first suggestion for "piante" is "water", the second one was "(he/she/it) plants" if I remember correctly and the last one was "plants". Since the sentence is: Le piante muoiono senza acqua - The plants die without water the first suggestion seems odd. I, too, would like to know if "la pianta" can be translated with "water" and in what cases.
Thank you very much.
I am almost certain that that is a mistake. Pianta and its plural form piante almost always mean "plant(s)," I haven't seen anywhere where it means water. Hope this helps
The third suggestion was mourn (for). I also believe that water is wrong and that one suggestion should be plant(s) as a noun (the only suggestion for plant(s) is as a verb).
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Singular is "la pianta muore senz'acqua" (the plant dies without water), but DL sentence is plural, so "le piante muoiono senz'acqua" (the plants die without water). IMHO he uses "senza acqua" to emphasize or specify, that there's no way they can live without water.
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I believe many elisions are optional and not mandatory. They are mainly to ease pronounciation. I just had a case like this with whether, "questo albero" should be, "quest'albero." A native speaker told me both are right and interchangeable. You will hear some forms used more frequently, but either is correct. Dealer's choice.
"The plants are dying without water" seems fine to me. So does "The plants will die without water." Both English forms translate the Italian quite accurately.
A few frames back, we were asked this same question but translating from English to Italian. I got it wrong because I didn't use a definite article in front of acqua. Now they don't either!
I said "Plants without water die." But it was marked incorrect. Doesn't it mean the same as "Plants die without water?"
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Yes you can, but with that word order it would be more likely to be seen in a poem. Nowadays people would rarely use that form in modern speech.
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Francine236534 - Just as one changes the word order in English, I believe the Italian would be "Le piante senz'acqua muoiono."
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Gotmo1 - Wouldn't that require the future tense? "(they) will die" would be "morranno" or "moriranno" according to my 501 Italian Verbs book.