"Does the house have a dining room?"
Translation:La casa ha una sala da pranzo?
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I wrote the same, but now I see the logic behind it. Da means something used for a specific purpose: Eg. acqua da bere - water for drinking= drinkig water. Sala da pranzo - room for lunch = dining room :D
The following might help then: does it have a specific purpose? If so, 'da' ('yes' in several languages).
You will find in future lessons that this is the way that the dining room is said. Think of "Sala da pranzo" as one full word for dining room. Just like the italian word for a bathtub is "Vasca da bagno"
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In Italia non si usa "sala da cena", ma solo "sala da pranzo", per indicare la stanza della casa dove si consumano tutti i pasti.
That just doesn't exist in Italian, just like there isn't a "lunching room" in English.
In fact yes. Some offices used to have a 'lunch room' where people would eat their lunches.
Not to mention kids in schools. What American can forget " the lunchroom lady'm
The english word for dining means eating room,either breakfast,lunch,or dinner
Is "stanza da pranzo" used as well? It seems to give many results in online searches.
I am also wondering why 'sala', which is probably a larger space than 'una stanza' (like e.g. 'sala d'aspetto'). But I guess it's idiomatic...
In Italian, it seems to me good to inverse the verb to build an interrofatove sentence ? isn't it ?
It's not necessary, and it's often perceived as archaic or rhetorical. It's not a grammar mistake, as in principle the order is pretty flexible, but it's not what a native speaker would say in a normal context.
Why is it da pranzo instead of da cena? Is it a dining room or a lunch room?
In Italian culture the main meal of the day is pranzo as opposed to dinner in British culture.
"Dinner" is the main meal in England. There are part of England where it is eaten in the middle of the day - at "lunch time", and the evening meal is called "tea'.
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2019-05-08 It used to be in America that "dinner" was eaten in the middle of the day, and the evening meal was called "supper". In my parents' usage, "dinner" was for a non-workday, usually Sunday after church. On work & school days, we had "lunch".
The difference, in English, between lunch, dinner, tea and supper is a rabbit hole that doesn't exist in Italian.
@Ferdinando - This is very interesting; thank you! I'm visiting Italy in less than 6 weeks for the first time. I'm so excited! Are the restaurants, then, more likely to serve larger meals earlier in the day? And, if so, is "dinner time" typically more like appetizers?
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Can an Italian speaker please tell us if "Stanza" rather than "sala" is simply not acceptable to mean "dining room"? Thanks in advance
Italian children learn their language just fine through trial and error, just like children anywhere else. They didnt get their words right at first.
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In Italian we also say "camera da pranzo". https://www.collinsdictionary.com/it/dizionario/italiano-inglese/camera-da-pranzo
I don't see any question regarding the use of ha instead of c'e. Is there a dining room in the house? Sorry I don't have an accented e on my keyboard.
Why is "sala da cena" wrong??? CENA meaning was always DINNER bei DL.My translating "the lunch room" for "sala da pranza" was accepted!
I studied Italian at the university level a few decades ago in Canada (with an Italian teacher). We called it 'una stanza di pranzo'.
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I think because that is asking: "Is there a dining room in the house", instead of "does the house have a dining room"
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This may explain ; 50 years ago when I started learning Italian , pranzo meant dinner( evening meal) lunch was colazione and breakfast was prima colazione. Cena meant supper.
Could I also say something sort of "C'è la sala da pranzo nella casa?", is that correct sounding at all?
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Reading these comments is so entertaining! But I don't understand why people get so worked up about the translation not being literal. English "dining room" = Italian "lunch room". English "breakfast"= French "little lunch". Even the 'same' language has variations, UK English pavement = American English sidewalk. That's just how languages are. Accept it or do something else, folks.