"La scuola finisce prima di mezzogiorno il sabato."

Translation: School finishes before noon on Saturday.

[aidandeno]

"Il sabato" means every Saturday. "Sabato" means this Saturday. It applies to every day of the week.

[Alan.Howes]

Native Brit English speaker here. Seems to me that you could use "Saturdays" or "Saturday" here and both would be correct. Both could mean "Saturdays in general" as in the Italian. Does DL accept both?

[Ispirac]

Is it natural in english that we use different disposition something like "School finishes before Saturday noon".

[jannitara]

I wrote "School finishes before Saturday noon" and got it marked as wrong.

[allegroassai]

Also gave "School finishes before Saturday noon" and was also marked wrong :(

[maximize22]

I tried the same thing. Maybe that's more of an English (UK) phrasing.

[je_suis_T]

Yeah that's frustrating and definitely is more of a UK format. Such as when we say "Saturday next".
I wrote "school finishes on Saturday before noon". Wrong!
Point is: Duo needs to embrace more variations!

[Michabelle]

You would probably be understood, but unfortunately it doesn't sound natural. Duolingo is correct here :)

[kievbarloux]

I've got it! It implies that on Saturdays, school ends early.

[Michael_EF]

Who goes to school on Saturday?

[Proletar]

Actually it's very common in Italy. So when you'll raise your kids in Udine one day you will need to understand this sentence!

[GuerraAmanda]

That's horrible! xDD

[lexablackbird]

We lived in Vienna for a while, and Austrian schools are similar, with half a day on Saturday.

[Jae633849]

È una differenza culturale!

[Alan.Howes]

I went to school on Saturday mornings, in Birmingham, England. A long time ago!

[marianosman]

"The school finishes before Saturday at noon" was marked incorrectly...

[LatecomerLaurie]

(American English speaker) One reason could be, it's before noon, not before Saturday.

[AndezGrip]

The hover hint on "il" says "and before". Should that be correct?

[dnovinc]

Nope it is a mistake. :)

[luke.floyd24]

why do you not need sul?

[PliLopes]

Why is "class" wrong instead of "school"? We attend to classes not to the school building itsef

[01nick1988]

The school day might be split into a few individual classes, so 'school' (meaning school day) is correct

[Anne289821]

Also rejected was, "School finishes Saturday before noon." Oh well.