"È sotto l'elefante verde?"

Translation: Is it under the green elephant?

[santop]

"No, it is above that pink crocodile"

[fernandoarg]

Hahaha

[fernandoarg]

Duolingo has its own version of the world. Il elefante verde, il serpente non legge il giornale, il ragno mangia i gatti rossi..... and so on.

[garrypas]

That's where I used to tell the teacher my homework was

[jlco]

No, it's under the red hippo, davvero.

[Cathy494190]

Green elephant? Then again, I am learning Italian from a green owl, so I probably shouldn't judge.

[a-muktar]

Duolingo can frustrate you then make you laugh haha

[Mattdennis7]

Sentences like these are truly the most difficult. You type out your translation and stare at it thinking, "this can't possibly be right, can it? Is this an idiom?" But you finally click the Check button and see that, no, it's just another case of sharing that you each cheese on Tuesdays.

[bluebird555]

We certainly learn some useful phrases on here!

[ejordan324]

The pronunciation of 'E' sounds a little off here, perhaps they should revise it if anyone agrees with me.

[andrea_yu_2000]

Yes, I understood it like 'Eh'

[bilboburgler]

how do we know it is an "it" rather than a he or a she?

[dieprinzessin]

Lift up the elephant :D

[MarianoAlipi]

There is no way to know unless it is specified in the sentence. Otherwise, only with context.

[ddixxidd]

can this mean"the green elephant is under" as an answer to the question "is the green elephant above or under the red one?"

[bruttium]

"Is (the area) under the elephant green?"

[Carissa789117]

Technicolor elephants are really too much for me

[daniel87359]

It is another example of nonsense question, unfortunately.

[NadiaRausc]

You should be on your toes when you are a student of DL. This phrase leads to so many interpretations that my head spins and I see red.

[stolijoed]

That is what I thought I heard but could not believe it because it made zero sense to me. But if Duo is trying to improve your ability to hear what is spoken perhaps the "nonsense" actually "makes sense" because you can't infer what the word should be from the context.

[AdamJuanMorton]

Why can't it be "Is under the elephant green?" (I guess if the elephants belly was green...?)

[banay]

i wrote "is it green under the elephant" which is same like urs (i think)
but i dont think that it means the same as the right answer - grammatically

[AlexBuxton]

È verde sotto l'elefante

[chatee]

Your question should be: Is it under the elephant green?.

[imenbergao]

Jhuf

[Interrobang3]

Jhuf indeed my good man, jhuf indeed

[darkpeak]

Hahaha!

[walgen]

did anyone else feel like this was some strange metaphor?

[steviecashmere]

I believe there is a book in italia
that refers to it, Discorso di Luigi Visone, intorno all'elefante

[BernardoSc6]

Jotalhão?

[BlackSea]

You get what you pay for...

[robin.knip]

Thanks duo, I can't wait to use this principally important phrase!

[ashgawa]

Ok.....

[nunomc]

LOL

[GNTER314995]

It is under the green elephant ; that's what I wrote. A question mark is missing compared with DL. It seems to me that even DL doubts that there is any green elephant in the world. Therefore a good answer could be NO. Both languages!

[_nexTLevel_]

pop art sculptures

[Ronbo]

I needed this one a lot in Italy. There's more green elephants in Lucca than you'd expect

[PuchkovKir]

Don't do drugs, kids. Drugs are bad.

[Girishkorgaonkar]

I was about to give up on adverbs and then this comes along.. brightens me up..lets do adverbs

[ArkadiKl]

Spero, non ha sudato

[Dr.Moir1]

Heffalumps and woozles, they're very confuzel....