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- "The turtle does not read."
"The turtle does not read."
Translation:La tartaruga non legge.
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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 :-)
yeah, that helpful advice caused me to change my correct answer to a wrong one... blegh
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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") :)
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?
Can someone explain the conjugations of read? I'm having a little trouble with conjugations
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.
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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Now, that's a discriminatory statement if I ever heard one! La mia tartaruga รจ molto intelligente!
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.
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?
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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.
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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
I prefer think that is a Disney comic to practice idioms and thats ok.
