"Mio figlio gioca sotto la pioggia."

Translation: My son plays in the rain.

[deactivated user]

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

[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.

[Chiara707843]

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

[FrankAtkin1]

same as French "sous la pluie"

[Mills_Toby]

Why not "My child plays in the rain" ?

[abazarov]

Mio figlio gioca nella pioggia?

[roman2095]

Yes I think that works

http://context.reverso.net/traduction/anglais-italien/in+the+rain

[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.

[FritzNeal]

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

[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.

[Chiara707843]

Pioggia only means shower as in the weather phenomenon

[Shaz52]

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

[hdk1026]

"Sotto" means under, not out.

[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