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- "I finish the cake by dinner."
"I finish the cake by dinner."
Translation:Finisco la torta entro cena.
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Can anybody tell me the difference between entro and durante and why durante is consider wrong?.
Entro means "before" and "durante" means during. You can't say: "io finisco la torta durante cena"
i think i would remember it like this, entro means until i enter that time, until i enter evening, it is the same as BY .. by that time, by evening
just as in englis you can use both by and during eg i can eat cake by dinner, or during dinner so here is the difference first one is indefinite and second is definite
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by means the time preceding and up to but not including now. during means at the same time as. they are not ever interchangeable.
- 138
entro vuol dire "prima di" Es: finisco il lavoro entro le sei= finisco il lavoro entro le sei) the same thing. Durante= during=while ES: durante il giorno non bevo mai.During the day i never drink. Durante la pausa magio un panino. Possiamo dire che "durante" indica un arco di tempo.( period of time)
Yeah, I wanna know why I can't use "per". It sounds better to my ear than "entro".
Per implies that you had cake for dinner (not pasta or pizza or whatever) instead of before dinner.
Because you miss the article per la cena. Always in Italia you must use the article before the nouns except when you refer of your family like as mother, father, son, etc. In this cases don't usted.
- 138
" finisco la torta per cena" è perfetta in italiano.il software però non l'accetta e vuole l'articolo determinativo "La". (finisco la torta per la cena" Entrambe le risposte sono corrette.
This would translate to "I finish the cake until dinner" rather than 'by' dinner
- 1922
entro is a preposition and prepositions never change. Only pronouns, determines and adjectives change according to noun gender.
- entro = by, no later than
- 1788
Well that's what I entered, but it was wrong. Duolingo seems to only accept the sentence with "la cena"
Does anyone know why? "Finisco la torta per cena" sounds okay to me
- 359
''Finisco la torta per cena'' was how google translated it but its wrong according to Duolingo which happens a lot
I am not a native English speaker, but "by dinner" sounds for me like "during the dinner".
Why is "entro cena" ("before dinner") correct and "per dinner" ("for dinner") wrong?
"By" in this context means "no later than," not proximity. As in, "The bill is due by tomorrow" meaning I can pay the bill today or tomorrow, but not the day after.
"I finish the cake by dinner" is saying "I will finish the cake before dinner or when it starts, but no later."
Also "by" is used a similar way when you say "by the time." As in, "By the time you read this, I will be gone."
To get even more confusing, "by" it's also used in English for ownership of an action: "written by" "built by" "painted by" etc. This is why books sometimes say "by [author's name]".
- 1922
Hmmm... and what does finche has to do with the sentence? :)
- finché = until, till, as long as
- finche = plural of finca = column (in a table or register)
- finisce = lui/lei finisce = he/she finishes
- finisco = io finisco = I finish
- 138
Finchè ( con l'accento) Non è il pluare di finca. Finchè= fino a che-fin tanto che- fino a quando.
- 512
If the sentence "I finish the cake by dinner." does not especially determines the point of eating the cake, why is here the using of "during = durante" in the translation wrong? I am not english. Does "by dinner" realy mean "at the beginning of the dinner"?
- 497
All I can say is that it is unusual English. Duolingo's weak English in this Italian section often creates confusion...
- 292
To me the english sentence is meaningless. You can "finish the dinner by eating a cake" but what about the other way around?
What meaning?!?! In Italian doesn't exist this form!!! Serve l'articolo FINISCO ENTRO LA CENA o meglio Finisco entro l'orario di cena!!!! ASINI
I keep thinking that entro, means enter, and it keeps throwing me of course.
I have just read that, Entro, means within. Could some please explain this to me.
- 390
Traduzione ridicola,non esiste in italiano "entro cena" Se mai, ....-dopo cena- o -durante la cena- o -a cena- o -entro questa sera- o -entro stasera- .Se proprio... -a fine cena-ma..- entro cena o entro pranzo- NO!
By (per) dinner doesn't mean before (entro) dinner... how are we supposed to guess this?
- 311
duolingo can't be your only study aid. you will be very, very unhappy. there are many resources like wordreference, thoughtco, fluentu, grammars, verb handbooks, exercise books, etc.
- 311
no. avanti as a preposition means physically ahead/before. he was standing before the judge. not time related.
