"She drinks beer."
Translation:Lei beve birra.
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I mean it's just a word. It wouldn't hurt to learn it if you hear it in the real world on a regular basis. That's just something that unfortunately can't ever be heard less frequently.
Why isn't it "Lei beve LA birra", seems inconsistent because it is "Io mangio LO zucchero" which translates to "I eat sugar"? Grammar wise it appears to be the same sentence (to me)
Both are acceptable. The definite article works a little bit differently with mass nouns in Italian than in English. Look at Emy__3's very exhaustive post on this page: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3431464
I'm still having trouble conjugating. In this case, beve. I'm still quite confused on how to make sure I'm using these verbs correctly. Any advice on this? Anything that someone would use to remember this better?
Charts always helped me visualize conjugations.
io _ . _ . _ noi
tu _ . _ . _ voi
lui/lei _ ._ loro
Are the pronouns for the conjugation of bere:
bevo _ . _ . _ beviamo
bevi _ . _ . _ bevete
beve _ . _ . bevono
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I took Spanish in high school so I am familiar with conjugation patterns. It might help if you spend a little time memorizing the basic patterns of conjugating regular verbs. Once you get the pattern down, it will start to come together a lot easier. Here's a website with the basics: http://italian.about.com/library/nosearch/nblfare198a.htm
I know Spanish so the verbs are similar and like I drink is io bevo. I always ends in o. stuff like that
Becaus the english doesn't say "she drinks A beer (as in A glass right now) but "she drinks beer" ( generally she is a beer drinker)
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I thought all nouns in Italian needs an "un" or "una" even they are not needed in English, so I also used una birra, and it says it's wrong... so weird.
You (Dou) said to never forget THE in Italian but you have. Very inconsistent
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Note that the question did not say "She drinks the beer" but rather "she drinks beer." In this case, there is no "the"
I would like to give food for thought. The consumption of alcohol is the consumption of a traditional drug that is culturally widespread and, unfortunately, not consuming alcohol is often more abnormal than regular consumption. I think it would be nice if the example of someone drinking a cola or icetea would also appear and the example with the beer would perhaps only be incorporated into the learning material later.
Beer is both plural and singular in english! Got it wrong for writing birre instead of birra...
