"Le piante muoiono senza l'acqua."

Translation: Plants die without water.

[susandlin]

why is the translation: "the plants die without the water" not correct?!

[rayner91]

"The water" is not really correct in this sentence as it implies a specific 'container of water' as a pose to simply needing water in general. The same rule would apply to "The food".

[JamesMth777]

I don't agree. It depends on the context. It could be meant in the general sense that plants die without water. But it could also be one person saying to another about some particular plants that they need to water regularly.

[Kevtastic]

It seems to be fixed now, Duo accepted it.

[SusanLedin]

Duolingo, I think you have two different answers here!! One says you need the article for l'acqua and one says not! Please make this consistent!

[Jeffrey855877]

the plants are dying without water not accepted 28 Nov 2017. Reported.

Duo has gotten a bit better about accepting present progressive as a translation for simple present, but not in this sentence. It is much more accepted in the French and Spanish modules, so this is a problem related to the database, rather than accurate translation.

[GScottOliver]

2019-02-06 Still not accepted; reported.

[GScottOliver]

And again, one year and one day later.

[MeroeOMER]

'The plants will die without water' not accepted Mar 2017

[pierugofoz]

The plants will die without water = Le piante moriranno senza l'acqua

[Jeffrey855877]

That's future tense in English. The Italian is present tense.

[YuriMykolayevych]

Can you say "Le piante muoiono senz'acqua."?

[pierugofoz]

your sentence is (almost) perfect
"Le piante muOiono senz'acqua"

[YuriMykolayevych]

Thank you. Accordingly, I corrected my original post from muiono to muoiono.

[susandlin]

Grazie!

[arktoe]

Why isn't this worded: plants would die without water???

[ZuMako8_Momo]

That would be «Le piante morirebbero/morrebbero senza l'acqua.».

[Andy221377]

"Brawndo" or "electrolytes" are also acceptable.

[Sunny345679132]

I said 'the plants die without water' and I was wrong