"Mio figlio gioca sotto la pioggia."

Translation:My son plays in the rain.

June 13, 2013

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[deactivated user]

    Could you also say "Mio figlio gioca in pioggia"?


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sofia222677

    No, you can't.
    In English you say "in the rain", whereas in Italian you say "sotto [under] la pioggia".

    The usage of prepositions is different in different languages.


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Chiara707843

    You would need the article (nella pioggia) , but it would be correct


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/661.7wo4echZ2qih

    same as French "sous la pluie"


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Mills_Toby

    Why not "My child plays in the rain" ?


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/abazarov

    Mio figlio gioca nella pioggia?


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sofia222677

    No, it doesn't. Context Reverso also includes machine translations, which often fail to translate idiomatic usages of prepositions, articles and the likes properly.


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/FritzNeal

    Pioggia supposedly means rain or shower. So why is "My son plays in the shower" incorrect?


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Germanlehrerlsu

    FritzNeal: In English 'shower' has two meanings: an ourdoor rain shower -- pioggia -- and an indoor bathroom shower -- doccia. So your English sentence is open to misinterpretation. The way it's written I'd take it to mean he's playing under the indoor bathroom shower. I suspect that's why your answer was marked wrong.


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Chiara707843

    Pioggia only means shower as in the weather phenomenon


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Shaz52

    I wrote a literal translation transforming 'sotto' to 'out in the rain' and this was marked wrong


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/hdk1026

    "Sotto" means under, not out.


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Alex518387

    I thought that 'at the bottom of the rain' might be a puddle so I had to look that up -puddle = la pozzanghera. I somehow didn't expect that

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