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"Quanti grammi di burro sono nel pane?"
Translation:How many grams of butter are in the bread?
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1093
Yeah, I thought "nel" could mean "on" here as it does when referring to food on a plate?
1093
Most of us have just never heard of putting butter in a recipe for bread, but nearly everyone has put butter ON bread.
-edit- Oh, should also add that for some reason prepositions like "in" and "on" are almost never exact translations between languages, so in a situation where we would say "on," that doesn't necessarily mean they would say "su" in Italian, even though in many other cases they would use it where we would use "on." I think different cultures somehow think about the relationships between certain objects differently.
1084
i've seen "nel piatto" here meaning "on the plate" instead of "in the plate" that i was suckered into following that pattern again and got this question wrong