"Come muore un animale?"
Translation:How does an animal die?
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Chocolate is indeed dangerous to most pets. (e.g., dogs and cats)
Il cioccolato è davvero pericoloso per la maggior parte degli animali domestici. (Per esempio: cani e gatti)
Maybe the snake in the boot bit it, injected it with venom, and then stabbed ot with the knife that was conviniently in the boot as well.
Mybe you think I'm crazy but I learn Italian because I only want to understand what does Damiano David say
The hint says multiple things.
If the animal is the bee or the ant, they probably died because the are still trapped in the sugar.
I missed the u in muore and Duo warned me "this does not look like Italian". Thanks Duo you're great!
"Come" and "more" are perfectly valid English words, so Duo was kind of right, wasn't it?
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In italian dialects they say "lui more, tu mori, io moio" so you didn't make a big mistake. The gladiators in ancient Rome had to say before the combat: "Morituri te salutant" Those who are about to die salute you, this sentence, in its latin form, you can hear every now and then in spoken italian.
Just wondering, why isn't it "Come un animale muore?" Up until now, the questions have been pretty straightforward.
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I guess it is just grammar rules Jenna. In English in a question it is one animal dies. But in Dutch (my language) and apparently with Italian also in a question the words are switched: Hoe sterft 1 dier? Come muore un animale?
I had the same question a while ago, here is what I found out: come un animale muore: is afirmative. Come un animale muori, muoro io. to make a question after Come should be a verb ou a pronoun. eg: Come divento io? Come si chiama? but, Sei come lei.
HMMM.. This is just my own understanding but: Morire (die) vs morte (death)
Death is a Noun (a naming word) Die is a Verb (an action word) Died is the past tense of the verb Die.
If you said - come un animale, it would translate to 'like an animal dies'
If you said - come morte un animale, it would translate more like, 'how does 'death arrive for' an animal?'
"In Italian, sentence structure generally follows this order: subject (who’s doing the action), verb (the action), object (who the action is being done to)—also known as SVO."
What do you think?? :o
Morior is first person present active indicative, so that wouldn't work. Moritur would work instead.
Well it's been a good long time since I did Latin. Thanks for the clarification.
First, the verb you gave is unconjugated. Second, it's the unconjugated verb of another language, very similar to Italian: Spanish. One way to tell the difference between unconjugated verbs (can't remember how they're called, but it would be like the english equivalence for "to like", "to die", "to become" etc) in the two languages is the ending: in Italian they always end with an "ire", "are" or "ere". In spanish, the last e drops. So, to die in Spanish is "morir", whilst to die in italian is "morire". And last, the addition of the 'u' in mUore just means it's an irregular verb, though I don't know the explanation for this.
Well I get a feeling that the base word is probably "muor" and the endings are being added on. "Morir" does not contain the base word, "muor", in it, and so that's probably why it wasn't accepted. :)
You need to thank Latin for this (and many more!) inconsistencies ;-)
How can I know that it's an animal dying? The dictionary hint says '(you) die'. Is this my misunderstanding, or is the hint wrong?
Hints list possible definitions, always check if the subject is already in the sentence first. Another possible definition was: he she or it dies.
In another question 'How do I become a man' the Italian translation of the verb is in the first person singular 'divento' Why in this translation is the infinitive of the verb used instead of the third person singular
The infinitive is morire. This is how it is conjugated:
(io) muoio
(tu) muori
(lui/lei) muore
(noi) muoiamo
(voi) morite
(loro) muoiono
It is a bit complicated but as you can see muore is the third person singular of morire.
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Why not! If you can say " where do baby animals come from, as well as how do animals die, in English, then what is wrong with learning how to say those phrases in Italian, when you are learning Italian ( or any other language that you may be learning)!
Italian doesn't really use the inversion of verb and subject to make a question. When not using a question word, then a positive sentence gets turned into a question by raising the voice (and adding a "?" in the written form).
Ex. Mario mangia la pasta.
Q: Mario mangia la pasta?
Il presidente ha dato le dimissioni
Q: Il presidente ha dato le dimissioni?
If you think that perché means both "why" and "because" then it will all make sense :-)
Can someone explain why it is reads like "dies an animal" instead of like in English where the animal comes first like "an animal dies". Just need help with this language barrier.
Of their cat's..not by drinking water.From> (''Our cats do not drink water'') XD
If it was in my boot with the knife, never mind the knife, nothing can survive the smell of my feet
Easy. I accidentally put the knife back in the wrong shoe. The one with the snake in it.
