"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.

[Hayley176355]

If 'La ragazza mangia la frutta.' is correct and 'La ragazza mangia frutta.' is also correct, shouldn't both answers be correct whichever you use? No matter if it's left out in the real world in Italian. The lessons need to be more consistent throughout the app.

I have noticed many times that I have been wrong because I left 'Io' out one time for a lesson containing 'bevo'. But then another time it is not required and I add it, and get it wrong.

[Curbits]

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?

[GavinKello]

linguini

[cliseide]

I know that " la frutta" means the fruit, so my answer was corret.