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It is, Bianca, it is! Especially when they change the recipe in the middle of the cooking!
there's been a real battle of ownership over this cake throughout the entire possessives series...
They're cutting the cake. I told them to wait for you, but they wouldn't listen.
To join the happy chorus here I add "Step away from the cake and nobody gets hurt!" :)
Can I say "La torta è nostra, non tua"? Some of the other examples in this lesson leave out the article, and I'm not sure when it's okay to do so.
Yes, they're both correct! The difference is very subtle.
- La torta è nostra. = The cake is ours.
- La torta è la nostra. = The cake is (the one that is) ours.
In that case, the sentence without the article actually sounds better. Here's a better example:
- La macchina più bella è mia. = The most beautiful car is mine.
- La macchina più bella è la mia. = The most beautiful car is (the one that is) mine.
So far no answer, but I gather from several other exercises that the article is optional. I hope I'm drawing the right conclusion!
Hi marygbaker ... In this example it is better without the article, thus "La torta è nostra, non tua" / Another context with the article; I'm sorry, but I write in Italian. SITUAZIONE →Noi portiamo alla festa tra amici "la nostra torta". Ma c'è pure Tom. (Tom è molto goloso, mangia più degli altri e non porta mai nulla) - Allora gli ricordiamo che la torta non è soltanto "LA SUA" ma è anche degli altri! Quindi deve regolarsi e mangiare SOLTANTO una fetta. See you soon!
I think you actually could leave out the "la" before nostra and tua, but it's important because it points out your opinion that YOU own this cake
the audio is clearly "no la tua", and definitely not "non la tua". Which is correct?
The sentence should have "non la tua" (so the audio would be wrong in this case - I also hear "no la tua").
"La torta è la nostra, non la tua" can be seen as a shortened version of "La torta è la nostra. La torta non è la tua." In this case "non" is an adverb affecting "è".
if you play it in turtle mode you can hear the non, but the consonants run together so much there I think part of it is write what you hear assuming the grammar is correct and as it does in most languages the words run together so you have to figure out words from context. I wrote no too, I opted not to double check with turtle mode this time...
On hover you get:"cake, pie, tart" always go with the first, at least in the first lessons. I don't know about later; I'm pretty new. But if "tart" was not accepted you should report it.
Yeah, I never even did the hover when the word first came up, because I assumed it would be the same as Spanish, in which it means cake. I had no idea it translated to tart until now.
where is the problem when I write that on this way "The cake is ours, it is not yours"
Is is more common to include the article or leave it out? Is there a subtle difference in meaning or emphasis?
why is this marked incorrect when I have given the correct answer? This is no way to assist learners!!
This construction could lead to ambiguity. It doesn't in this case since the sentence is short. This could lead to the Oxford comma problem. Would it not be best to use a conjunction? (ma?)
Αν γίνεται στο πεδίο με τις επιλογές λέξεων να είναι ίδιας σημασίας πχ nostro vostro tua sua mio κλπ ευχαριστώ νομίζω πως είναι καλύτερα από τις παρόμοιες στο γράψιμο λέξεις
