"Dove tengono i polli?"

Translation: Where do they keep the chickens?

[tonkoch]

Is 'chicken' as plural not correct here?

[spashby]

In English, the phrase "I have chicken" can only be plural if you're referring to the fact that you possess 'some' chicken, normally cooked. For example, at a restaurant you might be offered 'A plate of chicken' and it could be multiple chickens, but referring to the live animal the plural is always 'Chickens'.

[Veerlala]

Chickens used for food (pollo in Italian, versus gallo/gallina as a non-food chicken) are (in English) referred to in the singular form, chicken, even when more chicken are meant. So translating '(multiple edible) polli', would be 'chicken'. Multiple non-edible would be 'galli/galline' in Italian and 'chickens' in English.

I've made a report of the software not seeing 'chicken' as a correct answer.

[berthasuttner]

As usual: Either in the boots or the sugar.

[HaroldWonh]

Chicken is still not accepted as a plural of chicken. Reported again 4.4.15

[CelebrianArwen]

Bottom left drawer

[JeffDarby]

"Where do they keep the chickens" asked the fox.

[Ellis930361]

"Not telling." Said the farmer.

[MABBY]

If you can leave the article off of acqua, zucchero, vino, caffe, and sometimes even chicken, then not using the word "the" here is a frustrating loss of a heart. Grrrr!

[OnyxMoon]

All the words you mentioned refer to 'masses', eg some water, some sugar, some chicken (as in the meat). Because "polli' is plural, this sentence is refering to some specific chickens (animals), which seems to be why you need the article. That's how I understand it, but I don't know if it's right...

[Punkmom]

That is one area that Duolingo has done very poorly. I suspect that Italians use the definite article much more regularly than the Duolingo sentences would seem to indicate. And that the translations into English could go either way much more often than Duolingo allows it.

[Scostumatu]

Where do you keep the poultry? was not accepted. unless they're shopping at a Mennonite farm. Does pollo = poultry? Like pork = mialle.

[musicalSaranader]

It seems pollo refers only to chicken. Poultry is a more general word referring to birds

[Ashfaque305]

Batman: WHERE ARE THE CHICKENS?

[cseverin80]

Anywhere there is not a KFC or Popeyes

[Lillibel06]

Duolingo asking the real questions

[bellunoman]

Duolingo gave me "Where do they've the chickens", as the correct response.

[Ellis930361]

I replayed it over and over, and every time I heard "Dove sendo natoi" whatever that is. Ug.

[Tongue-twisted]

Why not Where are the chickens kept?

[Punkmom]

This verb is active (the subject of the verb is doing the action).

[Tongue-twisted]

Thanks, i should've noticed the active and passive difference there….:)

[CallMeAnja]

It changes the subject from "they" to "chickens," and takes us out of active voice into passive voice.

[JPJ280]

"Quando muoiono?"
Next Question:
"Where do they keep the chickens?"

[Evie12312]

What does tengono directly translate to?

[X3ctorS]

Why if the infinitive form is "tenere" does the verb become "tengono"?

Shouldn't it be "tegono"?

[RyanLakane]

Because the suffix of the verb is -ere

[Randonneur3]

..thought the fox.

[Victor120532]

Chicken is pollos, chick is pollo. in English you never say CHICKENS. You can say chicken's that will mean OF THE CHICKEN. So never say CHICKENS

[Muttley_]

Pollos is not Italian :-)

[musicalSaranader]

You can say chickens if you're talking about the living animals. But yes, chicken as food is typically only in singular

[aayushgoyalmps]

What is the difference between metto and tengo? I think both mean to keep.

[Muttley_]

mettere = 'to put'.
tenere = 'to keep'.

[BarbaraKSc]

Chicken is used for both singular and plural in English, like sheep

[RyanLakane]

Why can it not be "Where can they keep the chickens?"

[Hector290697]

"Tengono" looks similar to "tienen" ("have" in Spanish).