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"How do you fry the vegetables?"
Translation:Come friggete le verdure?
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Why is it this time they use le verdure ... when all the other times they use la verdura for the vegetableS ...
Why isn't la verdura "le verdure"? Any particular reason why the single is also the plural?
Verdura is a mass noun in Italian (and Spanish). It behaves in the same way as "carne" (meat).
Can one say Come tu friggi la verdura The English sentence can mean 'how does ONE fry ....', that is the way vegetables are usually fried, or it can mean 'how do YOU fry ....' as opposed to someone else. Does 'tu' discriminate these meanings or is it just a mistake?
If you want to say 'How does one fry vegetables' you can say 'Come si frigge la verdura'.
By the way, how can you write the italian sentence in a different font?
You need to put the sentence in grave accents `like this` and it shows like this like this . asterisks give you italic!
Edit Double asterisks ** give you bold
I answered come si frigge la verdura and was marked wrong. I also tried come si frigge le verdure and that was marked wrong too.
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i think the second one is correct, but the passive si should be accepted for this exercise. It is what the sentence really implies.
adding that tu means exactly how do YOU fry. And it sounds like you want to remark you mean "exactly you". Imagine a dialogue: Q: come si friggono le verdure? answer: xxxx. Q: e come TU la friggi?
The sentence is confusing because there could be three meaning. How do you, how do you plural (voi), or how does one. Luckily all three are correct here but I'd like to know the correct term for conversation.
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I don't think it's a mistake, in fact, that is also exactly how I would say it in Portuguese (I'm brazilian). We don't have a better way of saying this "one", so that's how it works, we just use tu (or você) meaning people in general
Why are both "friggi" and "frigge" correct answers? Wouldn't we need "friggi" for You?
So how do you say, la verdura to mean "the vegetable"? As in, there is a pile of green tomatoes on the counter with cake and meat, and you ask, "How do you fry the vegetable?"
For some reason "come tu friggi la verdura" and "come tu friggi le verdure" were both marked wrong. WTH?
I know the "tu" is not needed, but why is "Come tu friggi le verdure" incorrect
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"Come si friggono le verdure " should be accepted, as it is unclear what the sentence is implying. How does one fry the vegetables is formal but safer.
if program start use Lei like "you" you should say somewhere this. second mistake i did only because before program use only "tu" and "voi" like you.
I was presented with three options: 1)Tu come friggi la fragola? 2 Come friggi la verdura? 3Come friggi le verdure? Since the word vegetables in this case is plural, I chose the third option. However, the program is marking me wrong because it also says that option 2 is correct. Here the reply is second person plural. Mr. DL and moderator, could all be on the same page? If you change the reply in one side, please ensure it is also changed everywhere. By the way, please read this about the noun number: Milo Grika, Linguist and English editor Answered Oct 30, 2014 Grammatically it operates as a plural, but rhetorically it can actually be a synecdoche (a part that stands for the whole or vice versa).
So in the case of "Eat your vegetables," it can either mean "You should eat any and all foods considered (plural) vegetables," or "you have to eat that (singular) pile of vegetable matter on your plate."
The second is the synecdoche, and it might be said even if the "vegetables" is a single ear of corn, or a single stalk of broccoli.
I wonder if a native speaker could explain if there are sentences where it is better to use 'le verdure" instead of 'la verdura' I saw a package in the store yesterday that said "le verdure" and I was surprised. Now I come upon it again. Are there times when one or the other sound awkward? Thanks.
