"La tenda della cucina è bianca."

Translation: The kitchen curtain is white.

[dordixon]

Shouldn't it also accept 'The kitchen tent is white'? 'Tenda' translates to tent and a kitchen tent does exist because I have been in one. It's a tent with tables, stoves, pots pans and food and funnily enough it is also white.

[giuliap]

In order for "kitchen tent" to work, the italian sentence should have been "La tenda-cucina" or "La tenda adibita a cucina". "La tenda della cucina" clearly states that we are talking about the curtain OF the kitchen, it can't be the tent OF the kitchen.

[andrewduo]

Theoretically, it could be - I have a mental picture of a tent set up inside a kitchen. Curtain is a little bit more likely though :^{]}

[CatMcCat]

I said "kitchen tent" too. I pictured a camp of some kind.

[Mytly]

White curtains in a kitchen ... tsk, they're going to get dirty really quickly.

[Artemis.lyl]

They are going to get dirty, if not catching fire. :P

[janamorella]

Red curtains can catch fire as well... Or did I not get the joke :P

[RussellChr]

Is it not more normal to refer to curtains in plural? Is this sentence a typical way to talk about curtains in italian?

[blue.ukuelele]

Curtains are almost always plural in English, I would have thought?!

[JohnBrooks637100]

I can think of one popular use in the singular - the stage curtain - "bring the curtain down". But you are right, mostly they are in the plural.

[KittN1]

But if the window in the kitchen is small enough, it might only have the one curtain, rather than a pair ;)

[stephsgreen]

True, but idiomatically you would still say curtains

[stvny]

Tenda is tent?

[blueberyz]

why "the curtain of the kitchen is white" doesnt work

[pierugofoz]

now it is accepted

[Chris646121]

I said curtains, plural, and it marked me wrong, but I never say curtain, singular. Is that just me?

[WolfgangNarbe]

Why not " The curtains of the kitchen are white"?

[MoatasemFo]

What about that outside tents which protects the interiors from direct sun light at noons ?
Some people have these kind of tents for the kitchen and they call it the tent of the kitchen

[TimothyBar20]

What is the etymological derivation of 'tenda'?

[BrucePlumb]

I think it comes from “hang”. Curtains hang as well as a tent would have originally been a sheet hung over poles.

[badbadr]

tenda = curtain
tenda= tent

[Can341920]

What is a kitchen curtain? It should be "The curtain of the kitchen is white".

[Tom_the_hobo]

Very annoyed that it didn't accept "The kitchen curtain's white" as this is also correct.

[MartinC443488]

Tenda normally means tent or awning, and tendina means curtain.

[LydiaMonzonmolin]

I want to see what i answered.Otherwise how can I correct mistakes?

[Martanna420]

Incorrect.
Should be:
The kitchen's curtain is white.

[BrucePlumb]

You are literally correct, however in English one would normally say "kitchen curtain". Usually DuoLingo is also very literal in their translations but here they are thankfully giving us the normal translation.