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If you only put pants on in Autumn, I would not want to see you in the other seasons.
I died laughing. Ya'll are invited to my funeral, if not, I'll make sure this lesson haunts you til u end up like me! (kidding)
I thought you'd use "di" when referring to seasons and times of the days. Like..."D'inverno" = in winter; "di mattina" = in the morning. Did I miss anything?
Thank you! To be honest, I didn't reason in the same way, but did use "in"--however, I was guessing. The fact is, I never know which of the many versions of "in" to use. I do understand the "nel" versions OK, but dentro, di, in, su, nel, and more. Would DL accept any of these? I'm guessing not, as it sounds like maybe you tried "di" and got it wrong.
I wrote "D'autunno metto i pantaloni" and it was marked CORRECT. Oct 22, 2019.
wow. The audio on this was bad... "In" was very distinctly phonetically "inat" in the slow version.
Because you need an Italian word (an article) to convey the word "the" in your translation. "In the autumn" would be "In il autunno" ("il" being the word to use for "the" in the case of the masculine singular "autunno") "In il autunno" is then contracted to "nel autunno"
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"in autumn" sounds odd to me in this context. I think "in the autumn" in English covers the Italian usages both with and without the article. If you really don't want definitiveness, I'd say "during autumn" instead.
"In autumn", "in the autumn" and "during autumn" convey the same meaning to me in this sentence in English. I guess I will figure out how ''in", "in the" and "during" are used in Italian as i go on.
Agreed, this was my last question and last heart and I missed it on this. The translation makes perfect sense with or without an article.
Why do I have to translate the phrases in the same order sometimes while others can be translsted in a more flexible fashion? What is wrong with saying "I put on the pants un autumn? "
First I translated this from English into Italian and I used "mi metto," for the reflexive "mettersi," and duolingo accepted it, but translating in this direction, duolingo gives us the sentence using the non-reflexive "metto." I'm not always sure when one should use the reflexive form of the verb.
And then trousers is accepted. The difference seems to be whether i put in a comma. Weird
"pants" is an american term for pantaloni, English pants are knickers. I am glad they put on underwaer in autumn, trifle chilly without.
These double consonants are killing me. Got it wrong because I wrote "auttuno", basically just guessing at the spelling. My Italian friend INSISTS that a native speaker can actually HEAR the difference between a single or double consonant, which blows my mind. She also tells me I pronounce things wrong, but when she corrects me I can't tell the difference at all...
So "In autumn I wear pants" is accepted, but "In autumn I wear trousers" is rejected.
I'm getting enough wrong here as it is, without being penalised for being British!
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"I put on pants" is not as good as "I wear trousers". The latter is better English and yet I am marked wrong.
So pants it is but I will continue wearing trousers. The italian for pants should be mutande. DL should accept both English and American words.
I put, "In autumn, I wear trousers" and it was accepted as correct, as British alternatives usually are on Duolingo.
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What about 'I put on pants in the fall.'? At least in American English it is much more common to use 'in the fall' than 'in autumn'...
I'll let you put your pants on in the fall if you let me put my trousers on in Autumn!
Again this is wrong. The Americans may translate "pantaloni" as "pants" but I am English and the correct translation is "trousers". DL has accepted "trousers" before but now marks it wrong.
I wear gloves not accepts earlier now i wear not accepted. Make uo your mind DL
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Don't they wear decent pantalons in Italy? Pants is a container word for everything you can put your legs in.
I just loint this woid, (auttuno) i shouldn't be penalized for misspelling the gosh dang thing!
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I put on pants and when i do that i wear them too. On your lessen info you have three option - than you cut down them to onlybone ?
