"Il cuoco cucina il cibo."
Translation:The cook cooks the food.
66 CommentsThis discussion is locked.
Io sono Češka and I see that you cook all languages nicely together. Cuckoo cooks in my brain similar
Io cucino: I cook
Lui/lei cucina: He/she cooks
It's a matter of conjugations =)
Verbo "cucinare" Indicativo presente io cucino tu cucini lui/lei cucina noi cuciniamo voi cucinate loro cucinano
We don't use "voi cucina" in a respectable way, but we use "Lei cucina" that is the translation of the respectful form "You cook"
It's "voi cucinate". "voi" as formal you is very respectful and never used nowadays. It could be used with "Vostra Altezza (Your Highness)" and such. "lei cucina" is the current formal you used today.
Thank you for this... I was confused thinking in masc v. fem... this helps alot.
i heard "il fuoco cucina il cibo" as in "the fire cooks the food"
made sense
I wrote "Il cuoco cucino il cibo" but apparently it is "Il cuoco cucina il cibo". Why is the word feminine if the rest of the word is masculine?
It's a matter of conjugation: Io cucino Il cuoco cucina il cibo.(Lui cucina il cibo.) For the third person singular, -are verbs, like cucinare, end in -a.
From a practical standpoint, yes - that is the intended meaning of the sentence. From a literal standpoint, no, "prepare" is a distinct verb in Italian with the same meaning as it has in English. From an aesthetic standpoint, "The cook cooks the food" is an awful sentence in English, and I would hazard that it's not much better in Italian. The sentence to translate should probably be "Il cuoco prepara il cibo."
As an aside, both my physical and online dictionary list "To - dinner" as the first entry, which suggests this is one of the most common use of the Italian verb "prepare".
There are 2 verbs 'to cook': Cuocere and Cucinare each with its own conjugation. There is a need to be specific when using either for a test!What difference does it make anyway?
"Cucinare" is specific if you are cooking something to eat, because "la cucina" is the kitchen.
Cuocere is generally used to cook something by applying high temperature and it can also be used in other cases, like "to cook a brick" = "cuocere un mattone"
I don't really understand the given correction because of the difference of the verbs used for the noun. If cucina=(she) cooks and cucino=(he) cooks, why wouldn't cucino be the answer because the noun used ends with o instead of a.
"cucina" could be the noun kitchen, as well as the form of the verb "cucinare" used for "lui/lei cucina" he/she cooks
Does this phrase really make sense? It's just that my native language is not English and I'm not used to use the word "cook" as a noun, I don't think I really get what it means. (My native language is Spanish) :)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
Error in the app: sometimes it wants the translation of 'cibo' to be 'food' and other times 'dinner.' Either is a good answer, but you can get the question wrong about half the time since there's no way to tell which answer is expected. I wonder if there will be similar word pairs in the upcoming lessons…
Again could you PLEASE improve this function, this time i had to try 6 times before it finally regisered what i was saying, and i said the same thing over and over several times where it picked nothing up of what i was saying. This function is so annoying!!!!
If cuoco is cook in Italian, then what is chef? Or does cuoco mean chef as well?
That is EXACTLY what I said but it did not record it 3 times. Also, I sometimes see a phrase in English and it wants me to respond in English. I think the program has a glitch in it somewhere.