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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.
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.
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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 :^{]}
Yes, it should be because in two other instances, tenda meant tent. Don't give us the right answer twice and then mark it wrong when we use tent. I thought it was an odd sentence, but since I used it correctly before, I was shocked that my answer was not accepted with this statement!
Is it not more normal to refer to curtains in plural? Is this sentence a typical way to talk about curtains in italian?
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.
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But if the window in the kitchen is small enough, it might only have the one curtain, rather than a pair ;)
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I said curtains, plural, and it marked me wrong, but I never say curtain, singular. Is that just me?
Excuse me for just posting a guess. I think it comes from “hang”. Curtains hang as well as a tent would have originally been a sheet hung over poles.
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Very annoyed that it didn't accept "The kitchen curtain's white" as this is also correct.
Should include curtain in the drop-down translation on the lesson. Only showed tent for me.
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My drop down showed curtain, curtains and stretch. Putting "The curtains in the kitchen are white" was marked wrong, even though "in the" was among the translations of della. Can anyone explain this?
DL doesn’t accept plural “curtains” even though that is the normal English.
What is "the kitchen curtain"? Does it refer curtains in kitchen window or something else.
I can see why "La tenda della cucina" means "The curtain in the kitchen" rather than "The kitchen's curtain" but would it also be correct to say "La tenda nella cucina" or no?
"La tenda della cucina" means the curtain of the kithchen,"La tenda nella cucina" means the curtain in the kitchen, which this one is not, as it was needing washing very badly and now in in the wash. I know it was dirty because we had to be told it was white.
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
In one question in this section you say tenda is a tent and in another question it is a curtain
Hmmm. I didn't learn "tenda" yet and it didn't say it was a new word. Had to cheat to get it right. Shame on me.
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the speak bot is unclear and breaks della into de la with a distinct pause when in normal speaking mode. Only when you slow it down can on hear della. Still my misteak, but it's misleading
The audio for this sentence sounds like she is saying 'de la' not 'della' cucina. Would the meaning really be different?
I said, the cook's tent is white. Doesn't cucina also mean cook? Anyway, low blow to change tent to curtain out of the blue.
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Tent, sunshade should also be wright since technically both are possible and it is indicated that it are meanings of the word 'tend'.
