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- "She enters the restaurant."
"She enters the restaurant."
Translation:Lei entra nel ristorante.
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Hmm. Why does this need "in" or "nel", rather than just "Lei entra il ristorante"? The latter is more literal word for word - does the Italian require the equivalent of "She enters INTO the restaurant"?
"entrare" needs a preposition.
Entrare in un posto = Enter in a place
Entrare da qualche parte = Enter somewhere
Entrare a casa = Enter home
The most common preposition is IN, but as you can see there are some exceptions.
Here a useful list but, there is not the verb "entrare" and for movement verbs you can have "in" that replaces "a" in the most of the cases. If there will be some questions regarding the issue, I will find a way to explain it in a second moment. http://italian.about.com/od/verbs/a/aa031908a.htm
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O.K so because this is a movement verb when you are entering somewhere, you are not just entering "the" restaurant, or il ristorante, but for Italian grammar, you are entering "in" the restaurant, or nel ristorante, yes? Oh boy, as someone already said, yet another layer. Thank you for this explanation. Where would all of us be without our community?
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You are correct, of course, but the verb 'entrare' requires a preposition. here 'nel' i.e' in the. But entrare can also be translated as 'to go in', which messes the definition up a little. viz - Entriamo! - let's go in!
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"Entra nel ristorante" could also mean "He enters the restaurant". There should only be one correct answer to this one.
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Would have been nice if SOMEWHERE in these lessons we were taught what needs a preposition. So VERY tired of getting things wrong when we've never been told these things!!!!!! Seriously thinking about quitting Duolingo for this reason.
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And why not: lei entra in ristorante? Please advise. (I think that "al ristorante" expresses the fact one is actually "in" the restaurant, with no movement.)
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there is no one-to-one correspondence between italian and english. the correct english translation is, "she enters the restaurant."