"I eat steak."
Translation:Io mangio la bistecca.
April 15, 2013
9 Comments
Yea it doesnt say "THE steak" so how were we supposed to know? This needs to be fixed.
June 13, 2014
Rae.F
1954
Italian uses articles differently than English does. Here, they use the definite article to indicate the general case in much the same way English omits the article to indicate the general case.
October 2, 2014
When do you use definite articles to refer to something in general or specifically in Italian, like in this sentence "Io mangio la bistecca?" Would this srntence be correct without the article?
October 19, 2014
Rae.F
- 1954
Italian seems to be the opposite of English: Where we omit the definite article to indicate the general case, they include it.
(Also, you can edit your comments. You don't have to post a separate correction. :) )
October 19, 2014
