"Gli insetti sono nelle mele."

Translation: The insects are in the apples.

[MirandaFanez]

Now we need to get them out of the apple too? Why do all of the animals get stuck in stuff? The ant and the bee already died in the last unit because they were stuck in the sugar since the first lessons.

[wildflamer17]

ikr? at least they aren't in the pasta. That would be the ruin of Italy.

[wildflamer17]

Well, they're not in the pasta YET.

[lynettemcw]

It has always interested me that the two foods probably most associated with Italy, pasta and tomatoes, only arrived in Italy in the last millenium.

[BeadedKat]

I guess finding a whole insect in your apple, is better than finding half an insect.

[julia.s.h]

I think it is a competition !!! Gather a complete insect and you will win a pet :)

[dtUyaD]

Don't ask about figs ...

[AtanvarnoA]

Gross.

[Jae633849]

Che schifo!

[waynet3]

I like saying Nelle Mele :3

[MagdaPawla4]

I like saying "ho la lana" :D

[PhilippeSerhal]

Can this not also be "The insects are on the apples"?

[formaggiamente]

In italian, I think such a phrase would require something similar to "sulle mele" (on the apples), or "in cima alle mele" (on top of the apples).

Please correct me if any of this is wrong. Thanks.

[jesslc]

I think you're right. In this case "nelle" means "in the"

[mike.marsh1]

That figures. Thanks.

[InduPrasad11]

Yeah, but there was another phrase 'il cibo è nei piatti' which meant 'the food is on the plates' which confuses me.

[lynettemcw]

That's just a difference in how it is though about. Many plates, especially older style plates, have a concave part where you put the food and a rim around the edge. We still say on a plate, because it is mostly flat, but I don't know if you would find it inconsistent if you had always been taught to say in.

[CelebrianArwen]

Extra protein, yum yum!

[fluffyby]

This sentence kind of creeps me out. :x

[NateLovie]

"Sono nelle mele" is fun to say.

[distractedd]

if anybody was eating an apple while translating this sentence, i am truly sorry.

[ItalianFrog]

Ugh... I have bitten one of the apples, now the insects are in my mouth...

[AndyPyrope]

ma gli insetti piacciono alle rane

[TopClampet]

Correct me if I am wrong, but shouldn't that be "ma alle rane piacciono gli insetti" ? I've been locking horns with Italian language conundrums along these lines for a few weeks now. Please don't tell me i have it wrong (again!) ;-)

[Giorgio182480]

Let's go for a compromise and declare both correct :-)

[lynettemcw]

Unfortunately, that's not how language works. TopClampet is correct. In Italian, it is the thing LIKED that is actually the subject of the sentence, not the liker as in English. So you will always see some form of a before what we think of as the subject of the sentence.

[Josh5now]

This was a great sentence to practice pronunciation differences between single-L and double-L consonants

[Mohamed_Ehab]

Quando Ce' una consonante la proposizione si mette con l'abostrofo

[mskycc3]

I accidentally spoke the English translation, but it still graded my pronounciation as correct. Not sure if that's good luck or bad luck, lol.

[AndyPyrope]

This sounds like something that needs to be reported, although it has probably already been fixed.

[FernandoPerez202]

why is it nelle instead of just nel?

[Melanieangch]

Why nelle and not nello? Insects are masculine no?

[JazzyClazz]

Yes but nelle is referring to the apples. Nelle mele means in the apples.

[Ikuusi]

Thanks for turning me off apples for a while Duo!

[HeidiSchigt]

Since we haven't learned about pronunciation, and I doubt both the audio and my own ears: would there be a difference in pronunciation between 'nelle' and 'mele'? (Apart from the n/m, obviously).
In Dutch for example the vowel sounds different when followed by two consonants rather than one, is it like that in Italian as well?

[DREAMCRUSADE]

why just why

[bertha.lit]

Why "gli"in front of "insetti"instead of some other article?

[ivan.is.here]

"gli" goes in front of vowels.

[Marina.MN]

vowels and plural and "male" noun if I can say it like this xD

[vissicchio]

Thanks --gli-- goes in front of vowels.

[xxChristina]

Gli is for plural masculine nouns that begin with any vowel or the v or s consonants (if followed by another consonant) :)

[Joeman2003]

Gross... but i guess itll make this one easy to remember

[parasolids]

):

[StephenSmi789361]

I file sono nel computer

[JazzyClazz]

Yum

[CeL3STe]

Why isn't correct " The insects are into the apples?"

[sora592xcd]

Don't forget that the fly gets stuck in the oil. :)

[Noxturnum]

So many insects in so many things

[MaryD428783]

I'm sorry but don't you mean the insects are ON the apples? or are they inside the apples as this seems to say?