"D'estate usiamo la griglia."
Translation:In the summer we use the grill.
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you can say: "d'estate usiamo la griglia" or "in estate usiamo la griglia", both are correct and mean the same thing.
But you can only say "siamo in autunno" - "siamo in estate" - "siamo in inverno" - "siamo in primavera"
WRONG → "s̶i̶a̶m̶o̶ ̶d̶'̶a̶u̶t̶u̶n̶n̶o̶"̶ ̶-̶ ̶"̶s̶i̶a̶m̶o̶ ̶d̶'̶e̶s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶"̶ ̶-̶ ̶"̶s̶i̶a̶m̶o̶ ̶d̶'̶i̶n̶v̶e̶r̶n̶o̶"̶ ̶-̶ ̶"̶s̶i̶a̶m̶o̶ ̶d̶i̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶v̶e̶r̶a̶"̶
it is difficult to learn the correct use of prepositions (in all languages)
http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/grammar/prepositions/
D'estate means in the summer. Di is a weird one, it and it's derivatives can mean in, from, some, etc.
L'estate is the summer. So yous be saying the summer we use the grill, which doesn't make much sense.
Question for native speakers, would in l'estate usiamo or usiamo la griglia in L'estate make any sense?
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To my knowledge, the correct english term is barbecue grill. But, yes, it is the device you use for roasting things over fire.
Unfortunate really. It is simply not referred to as a gril in the U.K. "To grill" is, without exception, understood to mean grilling something indoors. If you said "We use the grill in summer", people would wonder why you never used it for the rest of the year, since things only get grilled in the kitchen, indoors.
"Barbecue" as a direct substitute for "Grill" should be permitted as a valid answer here for English speakers.
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I am not a native speaker, yet I get some useful information from the Internet. First, d' is usually the contracted from of di except in certain phrases like d'ora in poi (from now on), so d'estate has to be di estate. Next, as for the meaning from, di is in a spatial sense while da is in a temporal sense, so di estate cannot mean from the summer as summer is no way a place. Therefore, d'estate has to mean in the summer, and from the summer would be da estate.
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Prepositions are tricky things to nail down. They usually don't have a single meaning. It generally expresses origin/belonging, but there can be other senses that are less closely related to the central meaning.