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- "I eat because he cooks."
"I eat because he cooks."
Translation:Io mangio perché lui cucina.
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What's the difference in the use of the 2 accent marks? I wrote mine the other way and lost a heart :(
I already replied to a similar question of yours I think yesterday...
The acute accent sounds different from the grave accent.
"sé" "perché" "né" have acute accent.
"cioè" "è" "caffè" have grave accent.
Italian people will often make mistakes, because we were not usually taught at school which accent should be on which letter, we learnt it by reading. I personally learnt it because I had a typing course at high school and we were supposed to type the right accent. Now it should be different, everybody needs to type, so I think more teachers became picky regarding the "direction" of the accent.
Some more information regarding Italian accents: http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/italian/grammar/orthographic-accent.asp
Grazie! Very helpful. It would be neat to actually hear the difference, but this is OK to sate my curiosity.
to get lingot more easily ? I do the same with French when I want to unlock quickly a bonus
"Cuocere" is cooking with heat, "cucinare" is the broader set of operations from preparation to presentation, including of course "cuocere". When heat isn't involved, generally neither is used and it's just "preparare".
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I cant understand if it is mangio ending with io and male lui why it ends with a cucina a female "a"
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The verb is cucinare. Io cucino, tu cucini, lui/lei cucina, noi cuciniamo, voi cucinate, loro cucinano. La cucina is the kitchen.
I put cuoco, but it marked it as wrong. Should've been cuoce. What's the difference? Is it cuoco = "I eat"? And cuoce = "He/she/it"?
Im no expert, but it looks like "lui cuoco" == he cook. "Lui cuoce" == he cooks.
a "cuoco" is a cook/chef; "cuoce" is the verb "cuocere" conjugated for the third singular person.
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To conjugate cuocere: io cuocio, tu cuoci, lei/lui cuoce, noi cuociamo, voi cuocete, loro cuociono.
The system petiodically asks me to pay attention to graphic accents. How do I mark an accent in a mobile phone?
On android if you hold the letter for a few seconds, the accent options show up
I don't get why I have to write perché, with the accent.... Because means perche without the accent. It is like in spanish: porqué and por qué mean why, and porque means because.
