"Le banane"

Translation: The bananas

[MadelynWri]

It sounds like she's saying "le batane".

[RSvanKeuren]

The audio has a continual problem--the speaker accents the first word, usually an unimportant word like an article such as "le" here, and then her voice fades out on the second word, making it almost impossible to hear. PLEASE, DL, fix this constant, repeated, annoying problem!!!!

[Gaja8]

You're so right! !! I hear the same. I reported about it. First time I listened, I thought it was saying 'le patate' =potatoes

[9isme]

I heard "le batale" :(
There's something wrong with how the first "n" sounds, the slow pronunciation is no different.

[TobiZatti]

Isn't "Bananas" an alternate translation?

[princessanna777]

no, italians only say banane if they're referring to the plural. I asked my italian ragazzo

[benczurp]

It is more a question on the English use of "the bananas" and "bananas". In most circumstances, both would translate into Italian as "le banane" -- but then it also goes in the other direction, "le banane" can mean bananas, without the article.

[MichaelDeR14]

It's not clear to me when using Le versus I for plural can someone plea please explain?

[tegandot]

il turns into i
la turns into le.

il = singular (m)
la = singular (f)
i = plural (m)
le = plural (f)

Also, l' & lo (masculine words with starting with z or s impure) turns to gli

[cgraziano]

I believe Le is for plural feminine and I is for plural masculine before a consonant.

[OliverRecord]

Wouldnt "Io mangio le banane" translate into "I eat bananas"?

Why is it therefore that "le banane" cant simply be "bananas"

Im struggling with when a The is required and when it is not.

[dreykitsune]

When do I use 'i' in the end e.g cuochi and 'e' in the end e.g banane???

[Girishkorgaonkar]

cuochi is masculine which is a plural of cuoco. Hence the plural ends with 'i'. However banane is feminine which is a plural of banana. Hence the plural ends with 'e'. 'I cuochi' and 'Le banane'

[steinfin]

Isn't that the same as over? Ending with "i" = male
Ending with "e" = plural
...?

[lilianaduco]

They may have corrected it as it is pronounced perfectly.

[JessicaKar427325]

Just a suggestion as an additional part to repeating the sentence perhaps ask for the translations aswell.. this could help in improving the learning and help it stick in our memories.

[hannah95019]

When you are latin its pretty easy

[MusicMan97]

crap, i always miss the plural and say "the banana"

[MaMyriah]

It sounds like she's saying "le batane"!

[deactivated user]

It sounds like "le matrone" ... so, wrong again.

[NED524575]

Is this a yanni/laurel situation? I mean, you can't convince me that the woman says "banane" - no way

[deactivated user]

WHO has been giving so many downvotes? Practically everybody has plenty of them. Has the system itself gone bananas? Or nuts?

[MultilinguAustin]

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[RodrigoRuy8]

There's a mistake in the audio. Most definitely does NOT say "banane"

[Julia223243]

This was still impossible to detect after listening 10 times sounded like a V not the word banane!

[joan970248]

the bananas is the answer, but the answer AGAIN was "they will be back in an hour" This happens constantly.

[helenacarone]

Not clear whether we should translate the definite article or not. Eg. Le farfalle seems to = butterflies but le banane = bananas?