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"A dicembre beviamo il vino della donna."
Translation:In December we drink the woman's wine.
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Ha ha come on man Woman does not producw wine Only babies can deink the milk feom the mother
The wine of the woman (the wine belonging to the woman) Did she make it herself or buy it? We don't know, but we do know it is hers.
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I get that, but the way the sentence reads, "In December we drink the woman's wine," it's almost like some sort of proverb or something. Like it's something that happens annually in December for whatever reason. It also seems weird to use "the woman's" instead of "her" here; to me it just sounds too formal for indicating you are drinking another person's wine.
I would have suggested, "In December we will drink her wine" or "This December we drink her wine."
The problem is that it is not December yet, so we feel that it must be in the future. We don't know anything about "the woman" and why we would drink her wine in December rather than a different month. "In this club, each of our twelve members bring a bottle of wine and each month we drink someone's wine. We are proud to have our first female member and we have drunk each of the men's wine each month through November. So whose wine do we drink this month? In December we drink the woman's wine." I know it is a stretch, but here would be a situation in which we are stressing that the person whose wine we drink this month is not one of the men and not just any woman, but the woman who is the first female member of this club.
Without context, many of the duolingo sentences seem odd, but I would not shoot down something with correct grammar. You seem to want to add the context back into the sentence. Although it would be more comfortable perhaps, you would eliminate the very preposition we are trying to learn in this lesson.
There is a reason why it's not "her" wine or "This" because there are separate terms for those. "This" in Italian is "questo/a" while "her" is "la suo/a". So "This December we drink her wine" would be "Questo dicembre beviamo il suo vino" and pretty much the same for the other except it's "A" or "In" instead of "Questo".
probably this is not the place for this question but i'm a Spanish native and I just don't get when to say "in" or "on" with dates!
"on" with days of the week and dates and "in" with months and years, "at" with clock times. Also, when you are not late, you are on time or on schedule. The clock rings on the hour or every hour. In 1997, on a Sunday at 3:00am the baby was born in the middle of December. Yes, he was born on December 15th, 1907, at the same time as his twin brother, or perhaps a few minutes later or earlier, but no one will ever know which was first as they were promptly mixed up after that.
Had this sentence right after "Muore a dicembre", which makes one wonder - do we drink the woman's wine to celebrate his death? Or did the woman's wine serve as his cause of death?.. :-o
"A dicembre beviamo il vino della donna."
What does the letter A in the beginning of the sentence mean?
Because here you have a different preposition "della = di + la = of the" while the preposition which you need for your translation ("at the woman's place") is "da" ---- "dalla donna". note: This sentence seems a bit strange with "dalla".
why can't it be "with the woman"?? that's one of the options for "della" in the dropdown menu
Not any more " della " shows on hover " in, of the, some " http://dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english/di http://dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english/con
There may be a verb that would use di where in English we would use with, but this is not it.
Non rubare il vino della donna! La donna dovrebbe poter bere il proprio vino.
I don't agree, that sentence"in December we drink wine of the women" is not right
English has 3 forms of the present tense. So "we are drinking" is just as correct as "we drink" or for that matter "we do drink."
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The woman here is a particular woman. The mother of Christ. This is how i recall the Virgin Mary being referred to in Italian church.
Usually -iamo 1st person plurals can be translated as "let's drink" or whatever -- but not this time! Any reason for that?
Each year there is a competion, The women's Wine and Spirit Awards. Maybe they are sampling the winning wines at Christmas
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I am not sure but there's a type of german wine called "Sweet Woman's Milk"..." liebfrau milsch" I think it is referringto that
Never ever! No Italian would think about drinking Liebfrauenmilch. Better to drink lemonade as such a kind of sweet wine. Such wines are sweet by stopping the Fermentation and adding grapejuice, terrible. There are a lot of wunderful wines in Germany. I prefer fein my region really dry wines from Dörflinger in Müllheim, Lämmlin-Schindler in Mauchen, Heinemann in Scherzingen (all Markgräflerland) and Salwey in Oberrotweil/Kaiserstuhl, one of the best in Germany. Taste it!
Why is it necessary here to translate the articel 'il'? "In December we drink wine of the woman" seems correct too right? 'Il' is so often left out in a same kind of context, I'm confused why it should be there now and not in other cases..
"Wine of the woman" sounds very, very bad, very wrong in English.
You're translating the "della" (di + la) woman. "The woman" ('s wine). Not "the woman's the wine". Do you understand?
yes, "wine of the woman" does sound very bad in English, but it is the woman´s wine. Why not "wine from the woman"?
From = "Da" while "of or some" = "Di". So "wine from the woman" would go something like this "Il vino DAlla donna"; however, it's "Il vino DElla donna".
So when the preposition "dei,del, delle, della, degli" is in front of a noun, it becomes possessive.
