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Ti piacciono le uova per colazione?

Ti piacciono le uova per colazione?
Do you like eggs for breakfast?
From Lesson 135:Irregular noun plurals (le mani, gli uomini)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Ti piacciono le uova per colazione?

Why is "eggs" translated as le uova? Doesn't the -a ending usually mean it's singular?
This is one of Italian's tricky irregular nouns! The singular word for "egg" is l'uovo, which is masculine. But in the plural, it changes its ending to -a and becomes feminine: le uova. You will see this strange masculine-to-feminine switch with a few other words, like il braccio (the arm) becoming le braccia.
Why does the verb piacciono end in -ono if the sentence is asking "Do you like"?
In Italian, the verb piacere literally means "to be pleasing to". The subject of the sentence isn't "you", it is the eggs (le uova). Since le uova is plural, you must use the plural form of the verb, piacciono (are pleasing).
What does the Ti at the beginning of the sentence do?
Ti means "to you". Combined with the verb piacciono (are pleasing), Ti piacciono literally means "Are they pleasing to you?". This is how Italians express "Do you like them?".
Why is there no article before colazione? Shouldn't it be per la colazione?
When talking about what you eat for a specific meal, Italians generally use per followed directly by the name of the meal, without the word for "the". So you say per colazione (for breakfast), per pranzo (for lunch), and per cena (for dinner).

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