"Io non ho pepe."
Translation:I do not have pepper.
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Types of pepper:
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Bell pepper (the vegetable) = Peperone.
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Black pepper (the spice) = Pepe nero.
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Hot pepper (the spice and the hot vegetable. aka chili) = Peperoncino.
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Myrtle pepper (Allspice, Pimenta, Jamaica pimenta) = Pimento \ Pepe della Giamaica.
I know it means the spice. I'm not sure it also means the vegetable (although botanically speaking bell peppers are fruit).
The pepper is the name of some plant of piperacee species gender Piper, for the most part they are climbing shrub, their fuits is employed like spice bicause the aroma and the piquancy. The most important is the Piper nigrum*, a woody liana.
Report it. It's possible it either glitched or they forgot to include the contraction form when they programmed in this sentence.
That's not something a native speaker would say. It's more natural to say "I don't have pepper".
You could also say "I have no pepper," which is less common than "I don't have pepper" -- but it's also fine.
"I have not pepper" is antiquated and maybe outright incorrect in modern English.
You would perhaps have got it right if you wrote "I don't have pepper", that is with the apostrophe.
No, the correction algorithm does not look at punctuation, and in fact the entry in the database looks something like
I [don't / dont] have pepper.
Wait is a pepper like a capsicum? Or is it a chili? Because we call chilis hot peppers sometimes.
Is there a difference in words between pepper the spice and pepper the fruit, and between red pepper from the fruit and pepper from peppercorns? Or are they all "pepe"? I assume without an article, this sentence refers to black pepper.
I cant put "lo" in without a space before it otherwise it becomes "Lo" and is not accepted by duolingo. The program will not let me past this sentence to continue on.
I translated this as " I don't have the pepper", is adding in the "the" really that big of a difference?
One is a general statement about not having pepper, the other is saying you don't have specific, previously mentioned pepper.
Surely I could say "I don't have pepper. Not many English would say "I do not etc etc.."
"I don't have pepper" is a good translation, but sometimes Duolingo chokes on contractions.
"To have" is only conjugated into the progressive when it means "to experience", never when it means "to possess".
I have pepper = I possess pepper. You can find it in my pantry.
I have chest pains = I experience chest pains. You can say this, but it sounds like a thing that happens regularly.
* I am having pepper. This is not something native speakers would say. It sounds like something Dobby the House Elf might say.
I am having chest pains = I am currently experiencing chest pains. Please call an ambulance, I might be having a heart attack.
"To have" can also conjugate into the progressive when it means "to eat", although there's a limited context for that. Imagine you're in a restaurant looking over the menu but you can't decide what to order. You ask your friend, "What are you having?" and your friend answers "I'm having the house special." Or you can ask what the plans are for Sunday night, and the answer can be "We're having pizza." In these cases, it's the use of the present progressive to indicate the future tense.
Because there's not supposed to be two ees in pepper. It's spelt like "pepper"
You're adding extra information with the "any", assuming a narrative that isn't there.
Duolingo teaches American English and that's not something an American would say.
As an American, I wouldn't ever say "I haven't pepper", but I might say I haven't got any pepper. I would most likely say "I don't have pepper" though.
Because that's not how most people say it in English. It's more natural to say "I don't have pepper."
Does pepe mean pepper as a spice or as the vegetable? I wrote down; I haven't pepper, but that was wrong according to duo lingo.
FrancescoZZ is right: Pepe is not pronounced correctly. In the sentence it is pronounced pèpè, while by hovering over it is pronounced pépè, while it should be pronounced pépé
Correct me if i’m wrong: pepper as in black pepper is ‘pepe’; pepper as in red/green pepper is ‘peperone’.
In English we would say “I don’t have pepper” for the first and “I don’t have a pepper” for the second... Or “I do not...” is correct but more formal sounding.
Why it does not accept "i have not pepper"? What difference does it make with "i do not have pepper"? There is "i have" and there is "i have not". thanx
In modern English, we say "I do not have something". We do not say "I have not something." The only time we say "have not" is when "have" is helping to conjugate a verb, as in "I have not seen that", or in the stock phrase "The Haves and the Have-Nots" where "have not" is functioning as a noun referring to people who do not live a life of privilege.
We don't say "I have not pepper", we say "I do not have pepper" or "I don't have pepper".
It sure sounds like the ah sound. Is there no difference in the sound o ho and ha?
I wrote "I don't have pepper" instead of "I do not have pepper" and it's wrong?
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If this happens again, and you've double checked for typos, report it as "My answer should be accepted":
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I don't have the pepper means the same as I do not have the pepper.
It does, but both have an extra definite article that isn't there in Italian.
If the Italian would have been "Io non ho il pepe", then both should have been accepted. But without il, it's either
"I don't have pepper" or "I do not have pepper".
Without context, this is difficult. While dining, I would say "I don't have the pepper", however, while putting together a shopping list, I would say "I don't have any pepper." I can't think of a case in which I would use "pepper" without a definite article or a partitive.
Those don't mean the same thing.
I don't have pepper. Here, "pepper" is being used as a mass noun and most likely refers to the spice.
I don't have the peppers. Here, "the peppers" is referring to specific items and most likely refers to the thing (botanically a fruit, culinarily a vegetable) that you cut up and put in salads and on pizza, and can be very spicy or not spicy at all.