"The turtle does not read."
Translation:La tartaruga non legge.
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yeah, that helpful advice caused me to change my correct answer to a wrong one... blegh
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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 :-)
Hm... the Italian turtles are not so clever like the German bears... (see the German course where "the bear reads the newspaper") :)
Why is it when u highlight the word it says "letto" and still get it wrong after typing it. Preposterous!
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Same for me. I initially wrote "legge". Then checked to make sure I was doing it right, and was shown "letto". Changed it, wrong answer
Most turtles cannot read a human language.
Maybe they have their own?
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.
Now, that's a discriminatory statement if I ever heard one! La mia tartaruga è molto intelligente!
Can someone explain the conjugations of read? I'm having a little trouble with conjugations
Ok, when I looked at the word read on screen, the italian translation read letto in the practice on PRESENT tense. I think this is a mistake.
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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Perhaps the poor turtle did not have the opportunity to go to the school where the monkey was taught to read books
Think of do and does as auxiliaries that don't exist in Italian:
The turtle/La tartaruga + does not/non + read/legge
Sorry of my English! I mean can the words "non" put in the front? Such as "non la tartaruga legge"
do you know what is the difference between NON and NO ... i dont know how to use them
"NO" Si usa nella doppia negazione:
La tartaruga legge?/the turtle reads?
NO, NON legge./NO, it DOESN'T
Altrimenti per negare si usa solo NON.
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.
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?
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.
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I'm having a difficult time remembering which is which with the e or the a. It would be nice if we had a section that drilled conjugation. I keep mixing up pluralization forms with the singular since it's all the same letters e a o i
Several people have mentioned the fact that if we hover over the word "read", the hint says "letto". Nobody so far has explained why this is, or what "letto" means. Any ideas?
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The trouble is that the written English word read can be pronounced "reed" (in which case it is present tense: legge, as in he reads) or "red" (in which case it is past tense: letto, as in he has read). Obviously in context here the English sentence can only be using the present tense; bu the dictionary from which the hints derive know nothing of that.
The hints are in any case rarely useful for anything other than checking the spelling of a word you already know.
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"Letto" is the form used in Passato Prossimo, Trapassato Prossimo, Trapassato Remoto and Futuro Anteriore. I don't think that hovering over a word will give a direct translation, but merely suggests other conjugations to be aware of.
Unbelievable....I typed legge and the "hint" suggested letto!!!!!!! So I changed my answer to letto
The hint is wrong. Judging from the posts, I'm not the only one who flagged it and yet the error remains.
We need to remember that the hints are not related to the specific sentence we are translating. They are meant to give as many translations of the word as possible. Some of these meanings will not be appropriate in the particular sentence.
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The hint states for read "letto" – so I corrected my "leggo" (though I was certain about it) to letto. And see: Wrong! Could you please explain?!
We have to remember that the hints are not intended just to hand us the correct answer. What they try to do is to give as many possible translations of the word as they can, but the hints are not tailored to individual sentences, so not every possible meaning will be correct in every sentence.
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Es kommt wohl davon, dass das englische Wort read sowohl als dritte Person Einzahl Praesens (liest, legge) als auch als Partizip II (gelesen, letto) gedeutet werden kann. Natuerlich im Kontext hat das letztere keinen Sinn; aber die Hilfe-Vorschlaege beziehen sich immer nur auf das einzige Wort und lassen allen Kontext ausser Acht.
