"È una farfalla."
Translation:It is a butterfly.
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All the different kinds of pasta are slowly starting to make sense now...
I always called those bowties, and seldom called them butterflies. They look like both :)
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Hang on a minute! Let's say I am at the ballet for the evening. One dancer particularly catches my eye with his grace and movement. I lean over and whisper in my wife's ear..."He is a butterfly!" She nods and understands. But DL doesn't appreciate ballet, hence I was marked "wrong" for translating "È una farfalla" as "He is a butterfly". Seems harsh :-)
The butterfly isn't required to be a girl; the word farfalla is feminine, which is unrelated entirely to human gender
I love the way the speaker told that. Like a child who sees a butterfly the first time ;) cute
A butterflie isn't a "she", it's a "it". In the english language, he/she is meant for people (hence you can tell that someone really likes something when they refer to it as a he/she, e.g sailors referring to their boats as "she", people with pets saying "he's adorable")
In Italian "farfalla" is feminine but translating into English butterfly is neuter, "it".
In English, a butterfly is an it, UNLESS you know the biological gender of THAT specific butterfly. I'm assuming in Italian, you could use the pronoun in this case?
Or, see philObrien's comment for the metaphorical butterfly.
Isn't language fun?
Io sono una farfalla is a valid sentence (and it is) then why isn't she's a butterfly a valid translation for this sentence.
"E" is the word "is" so it should let it be he is or she is a butterfly!? Is this a mistake or am I wrong?
I just got 'È' and 'E' confused for the first time. I'm guessing this will happen again roughly 9,994 times.
I wrote the capital letter 'E' plus an accent next to it like -- E' -- to simulate the capital letter e with grave accent on it. Duolingo has signaled it as a warning. Although Italian keyboards do have vocal with accents for Italian characters as keys, they don't have the capital counterpart. Maybe Duolingo can accept the capital letter e with apostrophe after it as transliteration for capital letter E with grave accent on it....
Hi CodeVisio, To write a capital "E" with a grave accent, try ALT key plus 0200 on your numeric keypad (on the right side of your keyboard, NOT the usual numbers across the top rows). Hope that helps :-)
try holding down on the letter (e) and a list of accents may appear above
Right under the space to type Italian there is a list of vowels with accents. Just click the one you need.
Why is "you are a butterfly" wrong? Isn't "è" also the polite form of "you are" that you would say to a stranger (which doesn't exist in English)? Or am I wrong?
the red flag went up before I had finished. a common issue in the early lessons