"Lo zucchero migliora la torta."

Translation: The sugar improves the cake.

[Cielorea]

lo zucchero migliora mi vita

[Jae633849]

"Lo zucchero migliora la mia vita", but still, funny! :D

[Ex3mity]

Anche i fianchi!

[philjank]

Can this not mean "sugar improves cake", without the articles?

[dieprinzessin]

Should be right.

[silkwarrior]

but it's not accepted late June 15 - I am reporting - if "LO zucchero" can mean Sugar generically I see no reason why "LA torta" cannot mean cake generically..

[IanWitham1]

I think the Italian sentence can be translated as "Sugar improves the cake," or "Sugar improves cake," but they have different meanings in English. My mother made a nice fruit cake but she saw a fruit cake in a shop window that was similar except that the baker had sprinkled sugar on it before putting it in the oven. She did that and it improved her cake. "Sugar improves cake" means sugar improves all cakes and it doesn't.

[SarunasP]

I would argue - sugar makes the nutritional value of the cake go down

[Libellule808]

Cake without sugar would be a nightmare.

[IanWitham1]

During the Second World War, carrots were not rationed, but sugar was. The Ministry of Food published recipes for cakes that had grated carrot instead of sugar. They were not great cakes but not having a birthday cake was worse.

[RachelGrif13]

Surely, sugar improves the cake (making it better) rather than bettering the cake (being better than it)?

[Libellule808]

"Better" as a verb is synonymous with "improve." It does not mean "to be better."

[Ellssss]

migliora derives from the word meglio=better but in english the best translation for migliora (the comparative) is improve

[NathanSmol3]

There's actually a pseudo-cognate, 'ameliorate', which shares the Latin root. But yes, it just means to improve.

[NathanSmol3]

I think you may be thinking of 'besting' rather than 'bettering'. Bettering and improving are effectively synonyms, though used in different contexts.

[Fjompeji]

Sugar improves everything.

[RosevonTexas]

"Migliora," by the way, is a cognate with "ameliorate." (Both words mean [basically] to improve.)

[desifromitaly]

The correct pronunciation of "torta" is "tórta" (acute accent), not "tòrta" (grave accent).

[Pistachione]

I almost wrote "the cake improves the sugar" :)