"D'estate usiamo la griglia."
Translation:In the summer we use the grill.
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Why do we say "Siamo in autunno" but "Usiamo la griglia d'estate"? Why "in" for one and "di" for the other?
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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/
why 'in autunno' and 'D'estate' ? I'm just repeating the question that has already been asked ! Native Italian speakers please throw some light on this.. :-)
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?
Is "The Grill" what we in England refer to as "The barbecue"? I know in Germany it's the same.
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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.
Here in Australia (I'm a Scottish migrant, by the way) it is never a "grill" (only on the kitchen "stove"). Australians use the "barbie" relentlessly. They must be its biggest fans along with the South Africans , who call it a "braai".
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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.
I'm a native English speaker and that would imply that you would start using it in summer and then into autumn, winter and spring.
in tinycards la griglia is translated the grid. I know it is the grill, but pick one duoLingo!
You don't need to put "the" in front of summer in English. But DL wouldn't accept "in summer"
What is the actual meaning of 'di'? I know its english eqivalent is close to 'of' but can someone translate a sentence of italian without losing its gramatical form for me.
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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.
Barbecue is the same as grill. One is more American, the other more European. Answer shoud have been accepted! It is interchangeable.
