"The brush"
Translation:La spazzola
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Similarly to how I remember "fly" because it sounds like the Russian word for "Moscow", I can remember this because it sounds like spatula. I don't know how it works (perhaps it's the idea of Italian people brushing their hair with spatulæ), but it does.
I am wondering because "la spazzola" has "sp" as well as "specchio" and that has to have "lo". Is it because the one is feminin and the other masculin and is it a fix rule?
It only asks for "the brush" and does not specify. So I put "il pennello" as in paint brush and was marked wrong.
I wrote "pennello" which also means brush. The sentence did not specify what type of brush so I don't understand why it is not accepted.
Strictly speaking, no. That would mean "little brush." The suffix "-ino" is a diminutive that makes whatever it is attached to smaller. It would be understandable that you are talking about a brush, but, if there are multiple brushes that you could be talking about (for example, a hairbrush and a toothbrush), the listener might confuse which one you mean to discuss.
This link provides more info: https://www.thoughtco.com/alteration-in-italian-diminutives-2011565
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You are right! I was thinking of "toothbrush" instead of hair brush. Thanks for the correction.
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Sometimes Italian is much like Spanish and sometimes not so much. I typed the "il" expecting something like "cepillo" and ended up having to delete it and type "la" instead.
