"The jewelry"
Translation:La gioielleria
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I sound it out a different way:
Gi = J (in italian when the letter g is followed by i or e it becomes a j sound)
oi = oy
ell = ell
er = er
ia = ia (ee + ah)
J+oy+ell+er+ia = Gioielleria
My problem with this word is in remembering 1) how to pronounce it and 2) how to spell it!!!!!
I find the beginning 4 x vowels hardest to cope with (least phonetic) so I just remember it as Gelleria + ioi; this works for me :-)
Grazie, gdobei! I agree about the 1st 4 vowels...gioi+elleria="joy"+elleria..= joy store!
They are not naturally phonetic to an English speaker, but they are consistent within Italian.
Gi - is always the sound J (as in the first letter of Juliet)
oi - is always the sound oy (as in joy without the j)
Italian is actually pretty consistent with pronunciation - one letter or one combination of a couple of letters is pretty much always the same sound (unlike English where for example you can have 'ou' sound completely different in though, through, thought)
It's pronounced "jo-yel-le-ria". "gi" is always pronounced "j" and always written "gi". Doubled consonants are pronounced twice. I'm not sure if "ria" is one or two syllables, but I don't think it really matters much.
Doubled consonants are pronounced twice.
Not so much pronounced two separate times as held for double the normal amount of time.
Yes, also "the jewellery/jewelry store" = "il negozio di gioielleria", "il negozio di gioielli" (I don't know which one is more common)
edit: thanks lisagnipura, I've corrected it.
Depends. One "L" two "E"s on the left-hand side of the Atlantic, two "L"s, three "E"s on the right.
I think this needs to be reported. It has to be one and the other, perhaps a word for " store" is missing!
My Italian dictionary says gioielleria means jewelery store while gioielli means jewelery. Has DL made a mistake?
Please see dnovinc's comment above. I checked wordreference.com, and they seem to hold to the following meanings: il gioiello=jewel//i gioielli=jewelry//la gioielleria=jewelry store or jeweler. 《:-)
You're confusing the British and Americna spellings.
US jewelry
UK jewellery
Finally I learn how to spell it.
But have I got this wrong? I thought jewellery to be plural, singular- jewel? Duo seems to continually mix me up - in my mother tongue!
A jewel is a gem. Jewelry is the various rings or bracelets or necklaces, etc. Usually "jewelry" is the plural or mass noun ("She wears a lot of jewelry.") and "a piece of jewelry" is the singular.
My dictionary definition : gioielleria = jewelier,s and gioielli as jewelry. So your answer is not correct. Please explain
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According to my Italian dictionary, la gioielleria means a jewelry SHOP not the jewelry, itself.
It can mean both.
But when I translated gioielleria as jewelry in another session it said it was wrong and was jewelry store. Duo makes me angry sometimes...
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When it comes to weirdly spelled words like this, I sometimes find it helps to break it down into chunks, especially if you can find some kind of symmetry:
For example: g - ioi -elle -ria (the symmetry in /ioi/ and /elle/ might help)
or maybe: gioi - elle - ria (/gioi/ sounds like joy in English)
There's also a duolingo Italian course on Memrise which works like flashcards and you can create your own "mems", which are ways of helping you remember difficult words - whether it's adding a picture that will help you remember, or using a rhyme (what rhymes with gioielleria?), or using the etymology, or breaking it into chunks. Everyone has a different way to learn these things and I think most of us use a combination of methods.
This is WRONG! It means jewellery shop. They asked for the jewellery which is il gioiello
My understanding is that this means the jeweller or jewellery store and not jewellery?
My dictionary translates gioielleria as a jeweller's shop; gioielliere as a jeweller and gioiello as a piece of jewelry, or jewelry.