"Io non mangio il ghiaccio."

Translation: I do not eat ice.

[Lovetogoround]

I heard ghiaccio as gatto and was like, "Well, that's nice too."

[GraemeJeal]

Shouldn't this be pronounced "Gee-a-cho"? I heared it as "Gatto" as well.

[andy623354]

The funny part is that Duolingo may actually have this sentence on one of their courses

[Tuxfriend]

I misheared it as 'goucho'.

[afscardino]

This is a very Italian thing to say. They do not like ice there.

[Chibidora]

Really? I have just known that.

[Breakfastisokay]

I love eating ice!

[percyflage]

Me too! My favourite low-fat, salt-free, gluten-free, MSG-free, vegan, :Halal, Kosher and no-calorie food.

[psk1993]

It also gives you the chills while eating it, which makes it exciting :)

[Natalie_Chubbuck]

And hey, it's the most important thing on your extremely unnecessary weight loss diet! You'll see it on adds ALL the time. :) It's the stuff french models eat for a living.

[JoseeV64]

Yes, most people love eating ice cream (=gelato), but don't like frozen water (=ghiaccio).

[EmilNordin3]

Can one eat ice????? Its very hard and cold. You cant eat it!!!!

[canadie.e]

People eat ice all the time, I think? My sister does it.

[graceswim]

Swallowing an ice cube whole is one of the worst experiences I've ever had.

[TahaSHK]

thanks God you lived to tell the story...

[Friesk]

But what if he died swallowing the cube and it's his ghost telling you the story?

[illcommuncation]

If this reads as "I do not eat ice," how you do you say "I am not eating the ice" ?

[iiLuma]

Io non sto mangiando il ghiaccio.

[seedney]

so "i eat ice" and "im eating ice" would be the same sentence in italian but "i dont eat ice" and "im not eating ice" are different?

[iiLuma]

It's not the same sentence, the conjugation of the verb mangiare changes. You just remove the non and conjugate the verb properly, whether in present progressive perfect or present simple.

[Cole270432]

Why sto? Pls explain?

[tuess]

Is ghiaccio like the ice from ice cubes or the ice on a lake?

[Smith_Ryan]

I think it's just ice in general. Take for example the Rhapsody of Fire song: "Danza di fuoco e ghiaccio". Dance of fire and ice is a sensible translation. Dance of fire and ice-cubes, on the other hand, would seem a little odd.

[LanguageLe435356]

It's any type of frozen water. So any type of ice in english minus the ice cream.

[Rogmaestro]

Would it be wrong to say in Italian "Io non mangio ghiaccio" ? Is it necessary to have the article (il) there? And if so, why is that?

Thanks!

[tuess]

I can't really give an explanation why this is but the article seems to be used most of the time.
There are some exceptions where the article is wrong, but they are a minority.

[hidetouk]

In Italian, there is the article (il) before ghiaccio, but In English, zero article before ice. Why?

[manny6509]

I thought "il" means "the," so shouldn't it be "the ice" instead of just ice?

[daria_msk]

Ciao ragazzi! How to say in italian: "Please with ice" and "Please without ice"?

[iiLuma]

With: Per Favore Con Ghiacco.
Without: Per Favore Senza Ghiacco.
^_^

[Lassi492061]

a small typo: ghiaccio, non ghiacco

[MattKowalski970]

hey i'm returning to this program after a while is non the word for no or don't or is this a special case where n is attached to the end of non

[mikebarudi]

"non" is the word that goes before a verb to make it negative

[MattKowalski970]

fair enough thanks

[Katie167543]

It translates to "not"

[Weird_Ed]

Ma mi piace mangiare ghiaccio...

[elizabeth.1360]

How come it did not accept I did not eat the ice?

[iain.kings]

I assume because it's not the past tense (non ho mangiato)

[Larry1916]

I said I did not eat the ice. I got it wrong because it is I do not eat the ice. How do I know the past tense and present tense here?

[tuess]

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.

[Dorthe162288]

Il - the????

[alin39101]

Where is the "the" in the translation?

[JoseeV64]

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.

[Sally-Helen]

My husband does this, a very annoying habit as it ends up in a visit to the dentist.

[languagebump100]

So ghiaccio means ice cubes, and gelato means ice cream?

[tuess]

Correct-ish... Ghiaccio is the basic ice. So ice from ice cubes, the ice on a frozen lake. Whereas gelato is as you said the ice cream ice only.

[Lena.bobina.]

Why is ice cream gelato and ghiaccio crema not?

[BanditEevee]

Using your faulty logic, that would make the word butterfly (farfalla) into "mosca burro"... You see? It's just not how it works.

[Katie167543]

Good point.

[Faux3]

It would not accept my pronunciation twice, so for the third time I simply played back Duolingo's robot voice and it also was not accepted... FAIL.

[MaiBisnesse]

"I do not eat the ice" sounds wrong to me, but it won't take "I did not eat the ice". How do you indicate past or present tense?

[Karenv.dKnaap]

Isn't it "Io non mangio il gelato." because ghiaccio is ice (like frozen lake and stuff) but i don't know. Can someone explain this to me?

[Sorren8]

i fell like this word has to do with Latin...and if i'm correct it's where we get the word glacier

[GUISYAmpof]

I love ice

[Jonas794452]

Isn't "I do not eat ice cream" right, too?

[JoseeV64]

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.