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- "È ora di cena."
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One of the multiple choice options is "It is beef time." ha ha Duo has such carnivorous tendencies.
once of the choices i had was something like "la donna mangia le ragazze", so count yourself lucky :D
Can't speak for everyone, but if I'm having fun while learning a new language I'm more likely to retain it. Cheers! :D
I second that. The comments here are quite entertaining. There are people creating stories about how the ant is on the sugar.
Amen to that! More fun, more retention. Works with vulgar as well, but that's not advisable here!
it is fun, ( get a lot of laughs ) but I do kind of agree. It's annoying when you're trying to learn something and you're frustrated because you want to understand more and you have to search through the Thousand comments about Homer Simpson to find something about what we're actually learning about.
Rather see a joke or three than multiple posts of the same questions... Not every post needs to be a top post. Y'all can use reply
Dinner hour isn't really used in English. It would be understood, but it would sound foreign.
I think it makes sense in English where I come from and if you are on a ship or in a hotel, it makes sense to say when is dinner hour?
It is time for dinner. It is dinner time. Those seem the most logical to me in American English.
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Interestingly, I looked ' È ora di cena'. translated 'as It's time for dinner.' and ' È ora da cena'. and found that to be translated as 'It's dinner time.' But what's in a translation!
It's not idiomatic English at least in Britain, though we do say 'dinner time'.
because you are only using the preposition, if it was "the dinner" then with the added article "la" a contraction would form "della": "its dinner time (its the hour of dinner)" vs "it THE dinner time (its the hour of THE dinner" because "the" isn't placed before "dinner" its "di"
Sometimes Duolingo accepts literal and sometimes just the translated meaning. Frustrating. 2019.01.09
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Are "Ora" And "Tempo" Interchangeable, Or Are There Specific Times I Should Use One Or The Other?
I wrote, It's time for dinner and it was accepted. I was guessing and relying on my spanish roots. I'm still having trouble with the translation of "di"
Sad that "It's tea time" isn't accepted. We Northerners need inclusion too! haha
We wouldn't say that in American English, at least not usually. It may be used in other English speaking countries though. If it is then report it and specify where you have heard it.
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Many a time I have gone to a restaurant in America and founded it crowded. When asking why, I've been told "it's the dinner hour."
Your sentence wouldn't be okay but I'm not sure if it can be 'E l'ora della cena.'
That is an incorrect expression in English. You could say "It is time to dine" but not it is time to "dinner". Dinner used this way is a noun and you were using it as a verb. Does that make it clearer?
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Yes and if you wanted to use the word 'dinner' you could say it's time FOR dinner.It's hard to see the rule if you are a native speaker but I think you use "It is time TO...." with a verb and " it is time FOR..." with a noun.
just preparing you for when you meet an italian speaker who constantly mumbles everything
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Dinner time is not an english expression, hence "It is time for dinner" would be better. :-(
Dinner time is definitely an expression in American English. I have heard it and used it many times.
It is hour for dinner. Why is it not correct. It is the litrel translation.
