"I eat chocolate in the afternoon."
Translation:Mangio cioccolato al pomeriggio.
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12 June 2018. Therefore why not "nel pomeriggio" or "di pomeriggio" in the above translation. Why is DUO using "al pomeriggio" here? Can anyone explain when to use those 3 expressions? Thank you.
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I have checked the Italian spelling of chocolate - my cassells Italian -English dictionary shows cioccolata, while my Collins gives one the option of o or a - please clarify
If you want some translation fun here's an Italian article from a grammar expert: http://www.accademiadellacrusca.it/it/lingua-italiana/consulenza-linguistica/domande-risposte/cioccolata-cioccolato
Basically, in modern Italian "cioccolata" refers to the cocoa+milk beverage (e.g. hot chocolate = cioccolata calda), while "cioccolato" to the solid cocoa based paste (chocolate bar = barretta di cioccolato), but for the latter the spelling "cioccolata" is allowed as well.
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This is dim but I am still struggling with the partitive. Why is there no partitive article in front of cioccolato?
The partitive article in Italian is considered optional, but that's not exactly true, as in many cases omitting it or not is part of the idiom. "Mangio cioccolato" is one of the cases where its absence feels awkward. As far as I can tell duolingo's strategy is to translate it with some/any and leave it out when there's none in English; this has cost me hearts when I inadvertently applied the same idea to French.
Why is "al pomeriggio" right and "al mezzogiorno" wrong? Shouldn't the same logic apply?
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"al pomeriggio" is "at(in the) afternoon" while "al mezzogiorno" is "at noon"
I wrote 'nel' but changed it to 'nella' because it was at the top of the translations and lost a heart. :/ Reporting it
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la cioccolata si usa di più ma mi da errore, dovete aggiungere quella traduzione
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I tried al pomeriggio, mangio cioccolato. I would like to know: is the order not right?
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I found these two sentences: 1. La casa sarà vuota AL pomeriggio. and 2. Lui viene A mezzogiorno. My question is when should I put the articulated preposition (AL) before the moments of day and when I shouldn't (A).Thank you.
