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- "The bee eats the sugar."
"The bee eats the sugar."
Translation:L'ape mangia lo zucchero.
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Bees eat sugar all over the world (after humans take honey away from them)
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...
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
:)
I think that must be because "gnocchi" is probably in the plural.
Lo gnoccho, il gnocchi?
"il" is always singular. You're thinking of "i", which would be used as a plural of any noun preceded by "il" when singular. "Gli" is usually the plural for any noun preceded by "lo" when singular
OK, thanks!
So then I don't know the explanation for "il gnocchi". Originally, it looks like it is the plural of "gnocco", so there should be no way it could ever have an "il" before it.
It should be "lo gnocco", "gli gnocchi".
Yet I see "il Gnocchi" online - as the name of a restaurant. Maybe it should be il ristorante Gnocchi.
Yes, it's "lo squalo" (and "uno squalo") but "il serpente" (and "un serpente").
I think that a double consonant means that you linger longer on that sound.
"pala" is shovel, "palla" is ball... yes in italian double consonants are really important :)
I did it right that I do not know how to use aprostrophe in my phone. My answer is right.
why does a typo(1 "c" instead of 2 "c's") count as an error in italian yet in english it doesn't?
Maybe because you are currently studying Italian, not English? ;-)
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.
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I guess it was wrong. But the next time, please copy/paste your answer so we'd be able to comment
Anyone else had to delete 'zucchero' from their learned words on autocorrect?
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Lo - masculine, used before Z, S+consonant, GN, and some rarer consonant clusters.
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Il - masculine, used before consonants except the above.
There are three categories of verbs in Italian, those that end in -are, those that end in -ere, and those that end in -ire. And mangiare, like all the other verbs that end in -are, follows the first conjugation's endings: http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_mangiare.htm
