"One woman cooks the fish, the other cooks the duck."

Translation: Una donna cucina il pesce, l'altra cucina l'anatra.

[h0w412d]

Why can't it be l'altro?

[mikevir]

The sentence implies that the "other" is also a woman. If the "other" was a man the sentence would need to specifically state that distinction.

[bleone]

io ho imparato che quando nomini un cibo specifico devi usare cuocere? giusto o no?

[f.formica]

Non sempre :) Cuocere significa usare calore, cucinare seguire una ricetta.

[dmmaus]

Interessante! Non so "cuocere" fino ad ora.

[bestcoqui]

No way, I just wrote "e l'altra" meaning and the other one, and DL marked it wrong. Not cool!

[Lynnich]

but doesn't it say "the other"? so maybe the "and" (e) is where you went wrong.

[WeberSato]

Why can't it be "il altra"?

[daniel.g.bastos]

Because "altra" is feminine and "il" is a masculine pronoun. The correct pronoun is "l", used before both singular masc and feminine that start with a vowel.

[FilipeManuel]

The right answer that I gave wasn't correct, It only let me answer :
Una donna cucina il pesce e l'altra cuoce l'anatra instead of cucina il pesce e l'altra cucina l'anatra

[Faster74]

Perchè preparare non è giusto?

[babalootie]

perche non le pesce?

[JorgeHenri95141]

I think it's unnecessary to repeat the verb cook. In latin languages, it's very common to suppress repetitions.

[Reedo333]

It's not necessary to repeat the verb in Italian (I checked with an Italian) or English but I guess they want a literal translation of the sentence.

[Luiz127486]

my answer was not accepted because I used "e" instead of coma ( , ).