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My Italian intuition tells me panino should literally mean "small bread". Is that correct?
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Panino is a diminutive for pane, but trust me, it means sandwich. Two pieces of bread or a split loaf/roll with food in the middle.
Edit: Everyone seems obsessed with having panino mean just a 'roll', and while it does also mean 'roll', today, in Italy, when you talk about a panino, it's almost always a sandwich.
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Yes, but what's a sandwich? English sandwiches aren't the same as American ones (and we had them first...ask the Earl!)
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Yes, but what's a sandwich?
Two pieces of bread or a split loaf/roll with food in the middle.
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OK, maybe then it's a generation thing. To Brits of a "certain age", a sandwich is always made with sliced bread (not roll). If it's made with a sliced roll, it's a "roll"! I think I must be getting too old.
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I mean, in the USA a sandwich is typically made with sliced bread. But the use of other bread-type things such as rolls or buns don't make them less of a sandwich to us.
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That's certainly the etymology! Whether it still literally means that or if semantic drift has changed or expanded the meaning is a different issue.
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Good to see i wasn't the only one panini... Let's do our best and try to learn Italian until we get to fluent
...That's because the audio is so bad--it fades out on the important words, but pronounces the unimportant ones clearly, like "È". Please, DL, FIX THE AUDIO!!!
I selected a roll after I peaked to ensure DUOLINGO was happy with my answer BUT it returned WRONG ANSWER how can this be the case after the program had identified sandwich / roll??
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Always go with the first one listed. That's the preferred translation. The others are alternate translations.
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why does Duolingo NEVER, EVER, let us use roll as a translation for panini/panino?? It's so fusturating and yet Duolingo teaches us that panini/ panino means roll!!??? It's MINDBLOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Why should I translate "e un panino" as a "it is one sandwich". I think it should be "it is sandwiches".
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You're kidding, right? Singular vs plural is a pretty basic distinction when dealing with discrete (countable) nouns.
un panino = a sandwich
panini = sandwiches
È un panino = It is a sandwich.
Sono panini = They are sandwiches.
The first translation that popped into my head was "he is a sandwich" lol
