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516
I wouldn't have understood this at all if there wasn't a similar idiomatic phrase in Czech.
456
It's an idiomatic expression--just the same as when we "put the water on to boil." Happily, we're not wearing the water. ...if we're careful.
282
'Mettare su' is a phrassal verb (a unit/a set) and you don't want to separate its elements.
994
I think it's a Southern European cultural thing. In Portuguese we have the expression "Meter água ao lume" ... which translates to "To put water on the fire." :-)
Its quite common in English to say "I put on the water" if it's in context........I put on the water for tea, or coffee, or pasta, or even in the 50s, I put on the water for a bath (wjen people put water on to boil for the bathtub) either way, I get the phrase, but this guy was not clear in his speech......it definately sounded like he said PERLA la pasta............that threw me.
2666
In English we also say "put UP water," so that should be accepted as well. I have reported it.
617
I have never encountered "put up" being synonymous with "put on" in the informal sense of "putting water on to boil". To "put UP" can mean to erect or raise, to propose, to pretend, to seek election, to lodge for a night or two, to put away or cease using. To put up WITH means to tolerate.
2666
Well that's nice that YOU'VE never encountered it, but it's very common, at least here in NYC.
This doesn't sound at all as an idiomatic expression. We need to remember the prep. "su" that along with "metto" means "I put on water" with everything this implies. The problem with Duolingo is they neglect to go into specifics and nuances hoping its students are smart enough to get it anyway.
To have a clear understanding of what "idiomatic" means: idiomatic Definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/idiomatic
(of a group of words) having a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word considered separately: an idiomatic expression. English Idiomatic also means natural in expression, correct without being too formal: His English is fluent and idiomatic.