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You're right! I just removed this as an option. "Lascia" means "let" in the sense of "allow," but that's obviously not the case here.
I wrote "we left pasta on the plate" and it said it was wrong "we let pasta on the plate. Wrong duolingo
You're right, "let" is wrong, but "left" is not correct either. "Left" is past tense, but "lasciamo" is present tense (leave).
Since we're seeing a lot of pasta and restaurant statements I'll post my favorite Learn Italian site. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-s41-speak-italian-with-your-mouth-full-spring-2012/ Italian lessons with recipes from MIT. And very enjoyable classes.
Not sure why "we drop the pasta on the plate" doesn't work? "Drop" is listed as correct when hovering over the verb
If you are new here have a look at these sites.
http://www.duolingo.com/comment/1352379 http://www.duolingo.com/comment/1278938
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My first piece of advice to anyone new is: "Always chose the first word given on hover." And don't be overconfident of that. For whatever you need to ask come to the comment/discuss section there will be someone to give advice. Most of what we learn comes from them. There are helpful sites offered which I bookmark and return to etc.
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Also a big part of language learning (arguably the biggest part of it) is to fail. and fail. and fail. Don't be embarrassed by it. Try not to get too frustrated by it. Embrace it. See it is an opportunity to learn and get better. Better for you to fail because the hover hint was wrong, then subsequently come here and have the word explained to you in detail than to get it right and forget the word entirely 20 seconds later.
"Lasciare" by itself could only mean "drop" in the sense of dropping someone or something off (i.e., leaving someone or something somewhere). For it to mean dropping an object, you would need to add "cadere": lasciare cadere (literally, "to let fall").
in Italian, you leave pasta in a plate, not on it. In English we leave pasta on a plate, not in it.
In English "pasta" is any kind of macaroni (spaghetti etc) while "pastry" means cakes, pies and other kinds of sweets.
@that music You are absolutly correct and thank you for pointing it out. Italian "pasta" is both macaroni and cakes, pies etc in English.
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Using a dictionary instead of a translation program you are more likely to see pastry is dough that is used to make pies and other baked goods.
@fjr289 My apologizes for the post saying "pasta" was macaroni etc it is also cakes, pies etc. thatmusic just pointed that out.
in an earlier lesson, Duo said that "pasta" meant "food" but here it means just "pasta". any explanation?
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So for now pasta(ita) meant pasta, meal and now even dough. Just happened to get it wrong every time because duolingo does not seem to know which translations used before and not all are accepted to all sentences..
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Sometimes the alternative answers are incomplete and we should hit the flag button to say our answers should be accepted to help fill in the missing answers. We should be careful, though, that the context makes sense when using different homonyms, and also beware of similar-sounding words which are not actually the same (pasto means "meal", not pasta).
Why is pasta all of a sudden 'dough'? And why would you want to leave it on the plate?
I don't think pasta is used in english they use maccaroni or smth no? I am not a native speaker
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"Sul piatto" should also be correct ("piatto" is masculine singular, so the feminine singular "sulla" wouldn't work).
Is there a reason why saying "we leave behind the pasta in the plate" is wrong
There are times I have written nel piatto and it was wrong .. the correct answer was sul piatto ... so which is correct????
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Both can be correct, depending on context. Are there any specific examples of where one was accepted and the other wasn't?
I wrote "We leave the meal on the plate". Why was that marked as wrong?
Doesn't "pasta" also mean "meal"? If this is true, then my answer "we left the meal on the plate" should be correct. But it was marked wrong.
Another day I translated " la pasta " to English as the pasta and Duo said the write answer was " the paste " . Today as wrote as they wanted to be, " the paste" , so now Duo says it is wrong...
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Alternative answers for each question are not necessarily complete as there can be numerous alternative answers for a single sentence. If you wrote "we leave the paste on the plate" exactly with no typos, then it would be worth hitting the flag button and selecting "my answer should be accepted". Of course the context makes "pasta" more likely, which is why "paste" may not have been added yet when you tried this question, since most users wouldn't think to try it.
This is soooo frustrating. In all the lessons, I never saw the word lasciamo, yet there it is in the practice sentence. You know, the practice lessons, where is says 'use words you've learned......
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Sometimes prepositions in English and Italian don't perfectly correspond.
"Nel piatto" means "on the plate". "Al piatto" means "to the plate" or "to the dish" as in this example from Reverso:
La foglia di banana dà un sapore speciale al piatto.
The grilled banana leaf gives a special flavour to the dish.
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The English says "we leave the pasta on the plate", but "mettiamo" would mean "we put", which would change the meaning of the sentence.
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Lasciamo is past tense, so it translates to left, you say leaves but left is more accurate.
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"Lasciamo" is present tense. "Abbiamo lasciato" would be the past tense. See: https://conjit.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=lasciare&pas=1
