"La familia come a las doce todos los días."
Translation:The family eats at noon every day.
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Why is it not 'at 12' instead of 'at noon'? What Spanish word differentiates noon and midnight?
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Yes, and DL should correct. ' "At 12" (a las doce) should not translate to "mediodia" or "medianoche.
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sguthrie1: Following your reasoning, 'noon' should also be unacceptable.
However, since 'noon' is accepted, midday and/or midnight should also be valid.
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No. Not at all.
By my reasoning, "Noon = mediodía. Midnight = medianoche." (As MarcyBrown said, and with whom I agree.)
"A las doce" = "at 12."
And DL should correct its translation. and should not translate "doce" as "noon" or 'midnight."
Part of the problem for DL is that the sentence does not say whether it is "doce de la manana/tarde" or "doce de la noche.
(Note that, generally, "noon" is 12 pm. (doce de la tarde)). https://www.timeanddate.com/time/am-and-pm.html
la familia is singular, just like in English. The plural is las familias/families
would a native speaker chime in and please tell me if changing the ending to 'todas las noches' changes the meaning to midnight? ¡Gracias!
A las doce is an exact timeto me. You could not say the train leaves at noon.
really? 12 isn't accepted? Where I come from it means the same as noon and is also more often used in conversation
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I started to put "at noon" but didn't trust it. I put ''at twelve'' which is accepted.
Now that I think about it, at twelve would be twice a day. So unless the family gets together at midnight it would be noon.
La frase es ambigua. Es mejor usar mediodía o medianoche.
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"The family eats at twelf every day" ... think this should be accepted by DL !!!
Why do we need to add 'los' or 'las' before time and day? It makes it so confusing, can someone help me understand? Thanks in advice my G!
I translated the sentence exactly as the correction but it still indicates it to be incorrect.
I think of family as 'they'. Here they are using family as 'it'. I think comen should be accepted.
Midday is NOT wrong.....
from GDO ....
midday noun mediodía masculine; at/before midday al/antes del mediodía; (before noun) the midday sun el sol del mediodía
noon noun mediodía masculine; at noon a mediodía; until noon hasta (el) mediodía
"Midday is not wrong.
From GDO...............
midday noun mediodía masculine; at/before midday al/antes del mediodía; (before noun) the midday sun el sol del mediodía
noon noun mediodía masculine; at noon a mediodía; until noon hasta (el) mediodía
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The family eats= they eat...not “it eats.” Doesn’t see right. Should be comen. But then “ they” would be ellos. So maybe it is right in an awkward way.
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"Family" is singular. "One family; two families"
Also see Nick_Pr, above.
