"Vuole dei bicchieri rossi."

Translation: She wants some red cups.

[coloraday]

Here, dei is a partitive article. Read more on partitive articles: http://www.italian-online.de/grammar/chapter6/6_9_4_partitive_article.htm

[bohm2009]

did we cover these already? I don't remember. Voglio i bicchieri rossi was marked as wrong :(

[coloraday]

No, not yet. ;)

[CuteandChunky]

I don't think so, because I certainly don't understand it yet.

[travel.linguist]

It's like that: I want (some) glasses. -> Voglio dei bicchieri.
I want THE glasses. -> Voglio i bicchieri.

So that you can understand what I mean: One can't leave out the "dei" in the sentence because it would sound like a incomplete sentence, so no "Voglio bicchieri".

[BlackHeart01]

rossi is pronounced like rosse. fix it!

[KatPavi]

how can "bicchieri" be translated as "cups", as in correct solutions?

[lorenzolly]

I agree. Although I am not a native speaker, I think bicchieri translates as glasses. Tazze translates as cups--and indeed that word has been used earlier in the lesson tree.

[Lisagnipura]

Lorenzolly: "bicchieri" can be translated as "cups" and has been in several previous lessons. "tazze" also means "cups" CIAO

[AlexBuxton]

I believe bicchiere is a cup or glass and tazze is (at least in the south) used for a mug

[Lisagnipura]

Katarina: "bicchieri" can be translated as "cups" and has been in several previous lessons. CIAO

[Armusj]

Could it mean she wants some wine glasses ( glasses used specifically for drinking wine)?

[cristianomg10]

"Red cups and sweaty bodies everywhere" :P

[lirajf]

Could some body tell me which is the rule to decline or nor the colors. I have seen that some of them could be declined accordingly to the gender-number of the noun that is describe e.g. bicchiere rosso, bicchiei rossi, but other colors like arancioni or verde has not been declined.

[Ariaflame]

I think you just have to remember which ones do this and which ones don't. Reasons for why a particular one does or doesn't are probably lost in the mists of time or journal articles of linguists.

[emily.shim]

No, i dont believe there is a rule for colours... there is just the general rule that they are declined according to gender, and then some irregulars i.e. viola (purple)

[semuc]

If Italian is like Spanish, then "bicchieri" is glasses and "tazze" cups
Spanish= "vasos"= glasses and "tazas"= cups, this never changes.

[bertha.lit]

Can bicchiere also be bottles?

[travel.linguist]

no, "the bottles" would be translated as "le bottiglie" in Italian