"La ragazza mangia la frutta."

Translation: The girl eats fruit.

[Soheila868526]

"la frutta" means "the fruit" but in the answer "fruit" is mentioned wiyhout "the". Why?

[Noryn5]

Try and read through the below discussion. i hope it helps.

https://italian.stackexchange.com/questions/2013/why-is-the-il-or-la-used-everywhere

[AmyZingly]

Why is my answer wrong when i typed: The girl eats the fruit?
La frutta=the fruit!!

[KishanJethwa]

Would it be acceptable to say both "La ragazza mangia la frutta" and "La ragazza mangia frutta"?

[MariamH.]

Why we didn't write tbe fruit???

[kc_kennylau]

In Italian you can use the definite article when referring to a general object.

[italianPsycho]

People just dont get it

[cezarcanario]

Frutta in Italian, fruta in Portuguese and Spanish.

[LenaSamuel]

The "the" is often left out. :-(

[Doc0048]

It's clearly frutta, no way to confound with other words... for an Italian probably.

[rmorre2]

Then how would you say 'the fruit' in Italian if that was what you meant?

[Bm716]

This still hasn't been fixed? Like most excercises both versions (even though "i eat fruit" sounds retarded) are correct yet for some reason this annoyence is still occuring.

[Purvai5]

Yall sexist

[Lucretia69]

I hate to disagree, but it does not sound like a "u" in frutta. Granted, I should have twigged it was frutta, but the sound just isn't right.

[Gabriela.molin]

yes, it does. it sounds very similar to brazilian portuguese, which is written "fruta"

[Doc0048]

@Lucretia69 I suppose you're not Italian otherwise you wouldn't tell that. I can agree with you about it doesn't sound right, but not because of the "u", it's how he pronounces "frutta", and you can hear "fruta"... we say "frutta" and it's easily understandable that the word has two "t"... when I listen to DL pronouncing a sentence in another language sometimes I think that the pronounce is wrong, but it's just me the only one who heard something strange because I'm not a native speaker in that language, .

[Elko819779]

I had the right answer, but duolingo did not want it

[Robbadob]

Report it, then.

[italianPsycho]

Lol

[italianPsycho]

Hello

[italianPsycho]

How

[italianPsycho]

Are

[italianPsycho]

You!

[Abhi828821]

Typo

[Saruzza83]

sounds like frutta 2 me & in this chapter only fruit is covered,not soup,so cmmon sense

[Prof_T_Entee]

for me frutta sounds like a whisper. i have to strain my ears 2 hear it. Also I'm Batman.

[imalittlepiramid]

Hey im batman too

[Prof_T_Entee]

I am vengeance! I am the night! I! Am!! BATMAN!!!!!

[imalittlepiramid]

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE
AND THAT ONE IS OBVIOUSLY
ME

[Prof_T_Entee]

-does Batman stare-

[imalittlepiramid]

stares back and whispers "there can only be one"

[Prof_T_Entee]

I'll be back. -leaves the drives car through the wall-

[imalittlepiramid]

i'll wait for you.

[Prof_T_Entee]

I am Arnold. You will be terminated.

[imalittlepiramid]

No, I wont. scary laugh

[biokenjistry]

"frutta" almost sounds like "zuppa" in the robotic autotuned voice

[ziggKogg]

Not really, you can hear the word "frutta" pretty clearly. Besides you drink soup.

[DotAElliott]

I do not think of drinking soup. It sounded like 'zuppa' to me, too.

[AntonioLuigiRoma]

Sounds like "frutta" to me.