"Non danno caramelle ai cavalli."
Translation:They do not give candies to the horses.
54 CommentsThis discussion is locked.
278
imperative always adresses the 2nd person (you = tu / voi). Danno is 3rd person plural. Therefore, it cannot be imperative. If it was "non date", then you'd have been right. (btw, I did the same mistake on the first attempt)
625
I read the conjugation and I saw: io DÒ, tu dai, lui/lei DA Whereas WordReference says: io DO, tu dai, lui/lei DÀ Why this difference in accents? Can someone explain it to me? Thx!
You can use Google Translate to learn the infinitive and then get the conjugation chart from https://www.italian-verbs.com/
Dare is slightly irregular because of what happens with the stem*, but most verbs in Italian are regular and slot into the following templates:
https://i.imgur.com/8atYu1Y.png
* (two other examples of irregular verbs include bere, which is another slightly irregular verb due to what happens with the stem, and andare, which is very irregular due to something called suppletion**)
** (suppletion means it uses different words from different sources; the irregular English verb "to be" is the result of suppletion)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rF6Rtuim_tk/TqFZn3RkyWI/AAAAAAAAAQA/OARPJiAQ58c/s1600/italianblog-table003.jpg Here`s a table, which explains everything
It used to.
There are other places online that conjugate verbs, but you need to know the infinitive. That can be discovered with a bit of Googling, though: translate "to give" into italian
for example gives you dare
.
From there you can go to places like https://www.italian-verbs.com/ and enter "dare", which gives you this: https://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=dare
Most (although not all) verbs are regular, and regular verbs follow a template for conjugation depending on whether their stem ends in -are, -ere, or -ire. There are two different ways to conjugate regular -ire verbs, though, and apparently you just need to memorize which verbs take the special conjugation.
For the infinitive DARE
, "TO GIVE", the present indicative is:
io do = I give
tu dai = you give (s)
lui/lei da = he/she gives
noi diamo = we give
voi date = you give (pl)
loro danno = they give
For your sentence you need the imperative mood. In this case, since dare
is a little irregular, it would be non da'
for "tu" and non date
for "voi".
http://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=dare
Imperative is at the bottom.
"Candy" is one of those nouns that can be both countable (discrete) and non-countable (mass).
"Candy" as a category or concept is non-countable:
He eats too much candy.
Look at all that candy!
"Candy" as specific instantiations or sub-types is countable:
There are too many candies to name.
What are all these candies?
Italian has different words for "the" depending on whether the word is masculine or feminine, singular or plural, and what sound the next word begins with.
174
This has a bit of a ring to it.. is it a proverb (perhaps along the lines of the Biblical injunction not to cast pearls before swine)?