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Thanks for asking that - they must like it a lot in duolingo as someone always seems to be cooking it.
Could it be the key ingredient in chocolate cream pie? I've heard of THAT, but I've never heard of chocolate cream as a stand-alone item. (I also can't imagine eating it by itself.) Maybe it's a European thing.
Whats the difference between "Io cucino la crema al cioccolato" and "Io cucina la crema al cioccolato"? Plz help!
Italian verbs are conjugated depending on who is doing what. Here it is "I cook." "I" verbs have specific endings, usually "-o". Cucino. Mangio. Bevo. We, you, you all, they, and he/she/it have different endings. A single verb can be said in many different ways depending on tense, too.
Io cucino Tu cucini Lui/lei/Lei cucina Noi cuciniamo Voi cucinate Loro cucinano
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But the verb in the lesson is "cook" and the lesson is to teach particular vocabulary so it's best to practice it.
Judging by a little googling I did it definitely involves cooking. So since the verb 'cook' is used here I'd translate it as cook.
I know this is true in Spanish, so I don't know if it applies to Italian too, but in Spanish they don't "make" food. They either prepare it or cook it. So that may be why it's wrong
Does the verb change endings according to gender? I am a girl, so i was wondering if i have to take that into thought for later
No, as I've understood it the verb only changes on who is doing it "I read (leggo), you(informal) read (leggi), he/she/you(formal) reads (legge), we read (leggiamo), you(plural) read (leggete), they read (leggono).
People! Cucina is a kitchen or lei lue Lei cucina (she/he cooks you (formal) cook. You say Io cucino i cook, regardless of your gender.
Why is it la crema AL cioccolato when I cook it, but la crema DI cioccolato when it boils? Surely this should be consistent.
I will try to answer but I don't understand if you mean as opposed to another word or if there are cases you can leave it out. The word al is used similarly to "of" in English although we would not use it in the same ways. Al is used in Italian from what I have seen to take a noun and use it as an adjective. Crema al cioccolato. Chocolate is a noun but can be used as an adjective to describe another noun by prepending it with al.
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The Italian sentence could be translated "chocolate flavored cream". The English sentence is translated "chocolate cream". In English, "chocolate" is an adjective describing the cream. In Italian, chocolate is a noun telling with what the cream is flavored. "Al" is a contraction of "a" + "il". "A" is a preposition that can be translated many ways: in, at, to, on, from.... "Il", of course, means "the". You always use "al" when you want to say "something flavored by something".
DL keeps telling me that 'crema' means custard. Now I use the word 'custard' and I am marked wrong and told it should be 'cream.' Please make a decision!
It depends on context and recipe. Crema al cioccolato is a specific Italian recipe. I suppose if you wanted to literally translate it then you might translate it to chocolate custard, but it wouldn't really give the sense of what it is.
I did a little googling. It appears to be either eaten in a way similar to mousse, or used to top cakes. It did look rather nice. If this is anything similar. http://ricette.giallozafferano.it/Crema-pasticcera-al-cioccolato.html
how do i know if its cucino or cucina? does it depend on what im cooking?
The way it is conjugated it's io cucino (I cook) or lei/lui cucina (he/she cooks). What is being cooked is not at all relevant.
So would you say, "Io cucino" even if you are a woman?
Would you say lui cucina or lui cucuno?
So, it's io cucino(male/female) = i cook lui/lei cucina(male/female) = he/she cooks
More accurately, verb conjugation has nothing to do with gender. Instead, it agrees according to person and number.
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Person | I | we |
| 2nd Person | you | y'all |
| 3rd Person | he/she/it | they |
Verb to cook/cucinare: I cook/io cucinO You cook/tu cucinI He, she cooks/ lui lei cucinA We cook/noi cucinIAMO You cook/voi cucinATE They cook/loro cucinANO
Noum cook/cuoco (m), cuoca (f)
Noum CUCINA(s.f.)=kitchen
I was given to understand it's more like "chocolate custard". Similar, but used differently. Of course, I speak American English, so it might be a different matter in British English.
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Rae, you're right. The dictionary gives "custard" and the recipe contains eggs. "Pudding" as I make it does not contain eggs and the Italian is : "budino". I speak Am. Eng. too. In British Eng. one thing I remember is "pudding" aka "pud" is any after meal sweet. Dessert in other words; even if it's not pudding like. Someone may want to correct me, though. In Greek "κρέμα" (crema) is both "pudding" and "custard".
What kind of meaning does the word "al" provide to this sentence? Cream with chocolate or something similar?
Thanks @ Rae for the other feed backs, being looking for that conversation to say thanks, i decided to post my gratitude hoping you see it
If you can be of help to me again, am sure you are tired of me
I know Cucino means cook(verb) and Cucina cooks(verb)... please what is Cucini
The conjugation of cucinare (to cook) is posted above, but here's a reprise:
Io cucino ; Noi cuciniamo
Tu cucini ; Voi cucinate
Lui/lei cucina ; Loro cucinano
As a noun, cucina=kitchen, cucine=kitchens
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