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- "Io non mangio il ghiaccio."
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842
Yes, most people love eating ice cream (=gelato), but don't like frozen water (=ghiaccio).
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In Italian, there is the article (il) before ghiaccio, but In English, zero article before ice. Why?
do | did | done ...well I guess you know those. I am just starting with the present perfect in Italian so I cannot realy explain how it is made. But just assume that you are are either in simple present or present continous until you made it to present perfect.
Of what I understood is that the Italians have one tense for both.
842
ghiaccio is frozen water, e.g. ice cubes and ice on lakes. Ice cream does not have water but cream or milk as a base: gelatto.
842
As far as I understand there is no "the" in English, because Italian does include the article when talking about something in general and English does not: e.g. "Apples are fruit" - le mele sono frutta. This sentence is about water based ice in general.