"The duck eats bread."

Translation: L'anatra mangia il pane.

[Cavman144]

why is "il" there if it just says "the duck eats bread" and not "the duck eats the bread"?

[maddyflux]

The tips on one of the sections mentions that 'the' is more important in italian. It's just a quirk.

So when you get an italian sentence with 'il', you can ommit it in your english translation and still be marked correct because there is a difference between the two languages and the necessity of the 'the'.

[Diane179845]

Why "il pane," but not "il burro" as in a previous translation? I'm not understanding why "the" is used some times for nouns, but not other times?

[GrievousPeace]

It's complicated. The best thing is to try and memorize them.

[Salty_Almond]

I thought we shouldn't feed ducks with bread…

[Laura319778]

I have the same question. Why "il" if it does not say "the bread"?

[EVEELYNHS]

why do we have to put an il before bread if in the sentence does not include an the before the bread?

[Cookiio]

Ugh

[JosDeLen10]

Why il panne? Doesn't say the bread.

[Soncou]

as per comments below, can someone clarify or should it be reported

[dancrayZ]

I feel sorry for the bread LOL totally kidding

[dancrayZ]

:D I love bread

[LightsideX]

Il papero e la papera should be acceptable solutions