"The bee eats the sugar."
Translation:L'ape mangia lo zucchero.
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We don't take, we harvest. The bees are our responsibility- which is why it is Monsanto who is evil, and not beekeepers.
It's 'lo' before Z, S+consonant, GN, and a few less common ones like PS, PN, X, J, Y...
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Extremely helpful. Wish Duolingo have an option to pin comments for future reference. This would be one to keep.
However, I've seen 'gnocchi' presented as "il gnocchi". any comment?
Lo gnocco.
Gli gnocchi.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnocco#Italian
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gnocco-lo-o-il_%28La-grammatica-italiana%29/
It is perhaps more conducive to learning for a beginner learner of language to practice these Duolingo lessons with the standard Italian language rules instead of introducing slang, colloquial and dialects.
Get the basics right first.
Simple rule to remember: "lo" instead of "il" -
- singular
- masculine
- before the so-called impure consonants, that is, s+consonant (impure s), gn, pn, ps, x or z)
- before foreign terms with first letter j, y, w, x, h (i.e. lo judo, lo yoga, lo yacht, lo yoghurt, lo yeti, lo xilofono, l'whisky, l'Hegel, etc).
http://www.locuta.com/earticolo.html
:)
L'Hegel will certainly come in handy for Duo's philosophy section on the Italian course.
Yes, it's "lo squalo" (and "uno squalo") but "il serpente" (and "un serpente").
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Why is it sometimes with and sometimes without the article? I feel like it's completely random sometimes. Does anyone have an explanation? (E.g. in this task, 'lo' was mandatory, but in e.g. 'Beve il latte' the 'il' is optional? Both english translations had 'the'.)
my Italian boyfriend hates when I practice this sentence because ill never have to say it in real life :P I LOVE talking about the animals.
