"Io non pulisco tutto il palazzo."

Translation: I do not clean the whole palace.

[siebolt]

Every time "palazzo" is translated with "palace" which is quite okay. But it ignores the fact that an apartment building is also called "palazzo".

[mukkapazza]

Palazzo works for many types of buildings, office building, courthouse, so you can always write 'building' and be correct :)

[siebolt]

Thank you for the reply. Both Italian and English are not my native language, so I am not always sure.

[Meyshe]

The most common usage of "palazzo" in contemporary Italian is for house, not a palace--somebody is being too literal/literary here.

[alan.st]

It's a good point, but if there was a palace, and you didn't clean it, how would you say it? I wish duolingo had a way of indicating more common vs less common but still correct translations.

[italiaoo]

Yes, that's a good idea! Marking a good translation with "good" or "authentic" and an acceptable one as "acceptable".

... but maybe it is too fine grained for now. I think in the Italian-English training database there are still many things of a rougher nature to be cleaned up and smoothened before anyone should spend the time going over the sentences grading the quality of translations.

[lamosca.24]

Wouldn't it be correct to translate it as: I don't clean up the whole palace. I might be wrong but i'm not sure. I'm not a native english speaker.

[Lloydo3000]

Clean up = tidy up. It's more like putting toys away or washing the dishes. Whereas cleaning is vacuuming, mopping, etc.

[Quazar]

Why isn't " I don't clean everything in the palace" accepted?

[alan.st]

I'm guessing that would be "tutto nel palazzo". The difference is between cleaning the building itself and the things in the building (although the former probably includes the latter).

[PennRolfs]

Why wouldn't "I am not cleaning the whole building." work?

[johnrush]

PR, you are correct: "pulisco" in native English means "I clean; I do clean; I am cleaning."

[banay]

cos we didn't learn present tense yet