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"How do you fry the vegetables?"
Translation:Come friggete le verdure?
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642
i think the second one is correct, but the passive si should be accepted for this exercise. It is what the sentence really implies.
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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
642
"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.
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.