"It is the food!"
Translation:È il cibo!
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The options on my screen are "È cibo!", "È il cibo!", and "Il cibo!" (which I know is not the answer). The accent on the "E" for the first two options is the same meaning "it is", the main difference is that one option omits the definitive article "il" before "cibo". Duolingo has always accepted that when no word is placed between the verb and noun it is to be considered the same as using "the", so why are the two options not both correct?
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If I get an accent wrong in Duolingo Spanish, I'm just told to pay attention to the accents, then I'm allowed to go on to the next question. (There is no why I can check out this Italian sentence from this discussion thread to tell you how it works here, but it should be the same.) I do my exercises on a computer. Duolingo supplies the accented letters below the sentence for computer users. Don't you get that on your phone app.? If you don't, just type the "E". Don't add the apostrophe to the E (E')and see if that works for you.
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In multiple choice questions, you have to choose all the correct answers. Sometimes that's two or even all the choices.
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It's just pointing out the difference between è (grave e) and é (acute e). Both are used in Italian a lot so they're just trying to train your eye to notice the marks.
From wiki: in Italian, these accents are used only if it's the last letter of the word.
Example: perché (why/because, /perˈke/). Compare with caffè (coffee, /kafˈfɛ/), which has a grave accent.
The grave accent marks the stressed vowels of words in Catalan and Italian. A general rule is that in Italian, words ending with stressed -a, -i, -o, or -u must be marked with a grave accent. Words ending with stressed -e may bear either an acute accent or a grave accent, depending on whether the final e sound is closed or open, respectively.
So the difference is basically how they sound.
- é (acute) - closed sound
- è (grave) - open sound
Do it without accents or (on a windows computer) install the italian keyboard from Settings/language" (i believe). Then play around with it to figure out where the accents are. I believe the letters are placed the same as English. On an ipad, press the globe key to switch to diifferent keyboards. On a phone, press and hold the particular key to pull up the accented versions. There are many to chose from. e>ëęεη€ .. 3èéēěê
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Yes, that 'thing' on top of the "e" is a grave accent.
In this case it changes the meaning, for e means and, while è means (it) is.