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- "Un chilometro è breve."
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Oh really? If it's so short, running about five or so everyday wouldn't be too hard, would it?
Its closer English cousin is "brief", but that doesn't work to describe kilometers; "basso" is short in height, "breve" or "corto" are short in length or time. Although Pépin le Bref (Pepin the Short) is commonly translated as "Pipino il Breve", much to the children's amusement.
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Why isn't it "Un chilometro è corto."? Or are both possible and have a slightly different meaning?
I read breve is for time, so how can it be un chilometro è breve and not un chilometro è corto?
I put a kilometer is little, because little was an option. However, it was marked wrong. I'm a little confused about that.
Right? Apparently someone decided that it makes less sense linguistically than the other two. Arbitrary & untrue. I got marked down as well.
Don't suggest a translation (breve - little?) and then mark it as incorrect. As long as the sentence makes sense of course, which in this case does, it should be accepted.
actually, meters are very logical, as well as Celsius, liters, and grams. They are round numbers, which are convenient to work with. Unlike your miles, pounds, ounces, feet, Fahrenheit... Seems like you specially keep it as difficult as possible :)
You can say anything about feet and pounds, but Fahrenheit is actually more useful in day to day life than Celsius. However, Celsius is better for cooking and physics.
