"The turtle does not read."
Translation:La tartaruga non legge.
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but only because it chooses not to
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Two minutes ago I had to translate 'I am a turtle'. And so: yes, there is a turtle who reads - me :-)
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... unless it's a ninja tartaruga ;-) but they mostly eat pizza :D
Most turtles cannot read a human language.
Maybe they have their own?
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Hm... the Italian turtles are not so clever like the German bears... (see the German course where "the bear reads the newspaper") :)
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Think of do and does as auxiliaries that don't exist in Italian:
The turtle/La tartaruga + does not/non + read/legge
Ive had this one thrown at me alot like its importan. You will use the phrase the turtle does not not read alot.
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legge is 3rd person singular (informal) of the infinitive leggere.
Here is a conjugation table:
http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_leggere.htm
If you meant about the formal version, my understanding is it would take 3rd person singular, but it only means you (singular, formal), so that wouldn't work for talking about our friend the turtle's reading habits.
Can someone explain the conjugations of read? I'm having a little trouble with conjugations
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"Tartaruga" is feminin gender. "La" for feminine gender, "Il" for masculine.
My dictionaries both give testuggine as the preferred translation for "Turtle" and tartaruga for "Tortoise". Tartaruga del mare is given as an alternative for turtle. But mine are "English" dictionaries, rather than American English.
Duolingo has been going long enough to cope with this. How about a course for English speakers and Americans to learn each others languages?
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Lessoro, letto, and legga were the only options given for read, and yet all of them are wrong! One of the reasons why I'm never going to learn this language.
Yes, yes, turtle illiteracy is a huge problem. Someone should start a nonprofit foundation and maybe Sara McLaughlin can sing a song or something.
i thought was legge, but then when i clicked on the hint, it said imperative/lei = legga. kind of threw me for a sec and put in legga to see. is not the first time these "hints" point you in wrong direction.
