"La donna cena."
Translation:The woman eats dinner.
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when speaking in Italian, could you say "La donna mangia la cena" too?
Because that's just not how we say it in English. You have breakfast, have lunch, have dinner. You have food, but you have a meal.
in this case, "cena" is a verb (cenare) and "mangia" is an unnecessary repetition.
I think the "cena" i this case is a noun. Mangia would be the verb. Yes?
Yep! Cenare - to dine. Io ceno, tu ceni, lei,lui cena, noi ceniamo, voi cenate, loro cenano. Go figure!
Because to say that you would have to say "the dinner of the woman" which I can't remember how to say right now. This does not say that.
"The woman eats" would be "La donna mangia". The word Duo asked you to translate specifically means "eats dinner".
"The lady has supper" is wrong? i.e. donna only means women? and never 'lady' ? And thank you!
Daniel
La donna specifically means 'woman'. La Signora specifically means 'lady'.
The verb cenare means "to eat dinner". It's like the English "to dine".
"Dinner" vs "supper" is regional. In some dialects there's a distinction and in some dialects they're synonyms.
What about colazione? Can we say "La donna colazione " for "the woman eats breakfast"?
Apparently not.
Italian has "pranzare" for "to eat lunch" and "cenare" for "to eat dinner", but there is no special verb for "to eat breakfast". It's simply "fare colazione" or "mangiare colazione".
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18 july 2019
The verb "cenare" is conjugated. It's just that the 3rd person singular happens to look like the noun. The verb means "to eat dinner", or "to dine".
Che differenza c'e tra eat dinner e have dinner? Per la colazione qualcuno ha chiesto quake frase è giusta, noi diciamo "fare colazione" non si usa "mangiare la colazione" Ciao a tutti.
In inglese, "to have [food]" è un linguaggio comune che significa "to eat [food]". È più comune dire "to have [food]" che "to eat [food]".
"To make food" è il processo di preparazione.
The verb "cenare" means "to eat dinner" or "to dine", and the 3rd person singular "cena" just happens to look like the noun.
Can "The woman dines" also be another english translation for this sentence? I find it appropriate.
Because we don't say "she has the dinner" to mean "she eats dinner", we say "she has dinner".
Yes- so here (unlike the other question) the woman EATS dinner, but the sentence has the verb as 'cena.' So, isn't this this same as 'The woman dines'??? Or, 'The woman has dinner?' OR is this merely the inconsistent hyper-literality of DUO?
The problem is in looking for strict one-to-one correspondences between different languages. "The woman has dinner", "The woman eats dinner", and "The woman dines" can all be translated into Italian as "La donna cena".
Well, yes. That's what I would say, were I teaching. But when the program does NOT do the same thing, it can be really annoying. Duo often wants a strict literal response, but then glosses over on other questions. It's a toss of the dice to know which will be accepted.
It shouldn't be a guessing game. Each sentence has its own answer database with multiple valid translations included. If there is a seeming inconsistency between sentences, it's either deliberate (because not all variations are valid in all contexts) or an oversight (because a small team of volunteer course contributors need to manually curate the answers for each of the hundreds of sentences individually).
If a valid, correctly spelled translation is marked wrong, you can click the little flag icon and report "My answer should be accepted."
Different languages are not one-to-one word swaps of each other. Different languages have different grammar and different ways of saying things.
Yes, "La donna cena" can be translated as "The woman dines" and there's nothing wrong with that, but we typically say it as "The woman has dinner".
Yes. There are several nouns in Italian that look exactly like either the 1st or 3rd person singular verb (depending on whether it's masculine or feminine).
La cena is the noun "dinner". There is also a regular -are verb cenare which means "to eat dinner" or "to dine".
io ceno
tu ceni
lui/lei cena
noi ceniamo
voi cenete
loro cenano
https://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=cenare
Perhaps you didn't type it as correctly as you thought. From now on, please show us exactly what your entire answer was so we can help you see why it marked you wrong.
this was what I answered "has", I think it was Duolingo's mistake or I typed something else wrong without realizing But it's right to translate "cenare" as "have dinner"?
Yes. "Cenare" can translate as "to eat dinner" or "to have dinner". Both "The woman has dinner" and "The woman eats dinner" (among other possibilities) are in the database for this sentence.
Why can't Duo also accept "La donna mangia cena"? It is probably a rule where you can eliminate certain words because they are understood, but I don't understand why Duo doesn't take this as correct as well. It's very confusing for beginner Italian students like myself.
As explained in other comments on this page, no words are being skipped. "Cenare" is a verb that means "to eat dinner". "La donna cena" does not say "The woman dinner". It says "The woman dines".
If you want to use the verb "mangiare", I believe you would need to say "La donna mangia la cena".
Why there is not mangia in the sentence It should be ( la donna mangia cena
Why are you not giving me credit for the work I already did? I hit the wrong key & you knock me out of today's lesson. Now I'm starting new as if I didn't do any lessons today. This is not right. It has happened before.
The phrase LA donna cena has missed out "manga" if you are saying "eats dinner". I have noticed the dropping of verbs regularly with your translations. I doubt you are teaching the language correctly. This is concerning and is lacking accuracy,