"Sento la batteria."
Translation:I hear the drum.
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Thank you, you make me feel better. And you clarify "sentire" for me :-)
According to http://www.wordreference.com/definizione/sento it can also "Percepire per mezzo dei sensi, ad esclusione di quello della vista", so it could even mean "I feel the battery" ... maybe if you are sitting directly on the battery and it is getting hot.
Also on wordreference: "Ascoltare prestando attenzione:" Listen for something.
Can sentire also mean "actively feel for something"? "I am feeling the battery"?
Only in the context of subconscious intuition. There are more common choices, e.g. avvertire. See http://dizionari.repubblica.it/Inglese-Italiano/S/tosense.php?lingua=en.
Sentire has several meanings, depending on which physical sense is in the context (e.g. batteria -> hear). See http://dizionari.repubblica.it/Italiano-Inglese/S/sentire.php
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That's what I thought. And how would you say ' I smell the battery'? Surely it can't be the same sentence?
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Since every other question in this section involving batteria was about a battery for a car, this was bizzare to say the least. Although there was also strummento and other musical terms, so I guess this was added to show words meaning different things? Tough without a context though.
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Every question I have had since I started this lesson has related to a car. But now I get "Sento la batteria - I hear the drum". What an odd thing.
I had the same reaction! But I think it's just the same as when we got questions about salt (sale) in a lesson about places, (sale = plural for salon). I think Duolingo is just choosing questions about "batteria" and the program isn't sophisticated enough to know when it means "drum" and when it means "battery."
The dictionary translates an electrical battery as 'una pila'; the French word is 'la pile'. A single drum is un tamburo. Only a drum kit, which is to say "the drums", is 'una batteria'.
So I think we are looking at the original meaning of 'battery' here, which is several identical objects arranged and used as a set. A gun battery certainly preceded any electrical battery (which strictly speaking is several cells linked together) but it's possible that the military took the word from the one used in army bands. From the same root we have "batteria da cucina", which in Britain is normally used in the French form without translation, but means the set of pots and pans.
So actually Duolingo's translation is wrong: drum should be plural.
"Can you hear the drums, Fernando? ..."
Battery is la pila in Spanish too, although google translate's first definition for bateria is an electrical battery. I've only ever heard "pila" in spoken Spanish used to describe a battery and "bateria" for a drum kit. Interestingly, google also recognized bateria as battery in the sense of assault and battery. (Beating someone up, just like you would beat a drum)
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Did anyone else hear a difference in pronunciation between this example and previous ones?
I heard previously "batter-EE-a" for battery and in this example "batt-ER-ia" for drum(s).
This is what makes learning a language so interesting. Even though there is no context here to indicate the meaning, as there would be in a conversation, it makes one think and take the time to find out why this particular word is used. Try using https://www.wordreference.com/iten/batteria. As in any language one word can have many meanings depending on context.
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As far as I know, "batteria" means "a set of drums" A battery-batteria in this context mean a group of certain items. i.e.; a battery of drums, a battery of hens, a batteru of cannons; but never a single item of any.