"Ŝi ŝatas ludi kun la ŝafido."

Translation: She likes playing with the lamb.

[crispycraker]

Ĉu ŝi nomiĝas Mary?

[AjxojLerni]

Depends. How little was the lamb?

[Hsien.duol]

Ĝia fliso estis kiel blanka tiel neĝo.

It’s fleece was white as snow.

Was that sentence correct?

[DavidWolff17]

I can't find "fliso" anywhere. Perhaps lano, ŝaflano, pelto, felo.

Also, "tiel blanka kiel neĝo" ("that white, as snow", to be overly literal).

[Sun-Wukong]

In the immortal words of Jim Gaffigan: "Fun to pet, better to chew.v

[dovydas.st]

No -n on ŝafido? Ŝafidon?

[Majklo_Blic]

No, because it follows the preposition kun. In Esperanto, objects of the preposition only take the accusative to indicate movement, and only when there would be ambiguity otherwise (such as the difference between "in" and "into").

[BenBernheim]

Is the gerund the same as the infinitive in esperanto? Literally translated, wouldn't this be "she likes to play with the lamb", preferable in my mind to the gerund?

[danielqsc]

Yes: when a verb is the subject or the object of a sentence, it still remains in infinitive.

[High_Raccoon]

ne ludu kun via manĝo.

[MicahLiuba1]

Ĉu ĝia lano estas blanka kiel neĝo

[AjxojLerni]

Does this mean the lamb is a playmate or a plaything?

[Carlee396055]

There isn't a sentence/word difference between a toy animal and a real animal. So it could be either.

[OldBen44]

I'm bound to get much of this section wrong because the speaker does not pronounce the vowels clearly. I have to write it down, learn it, and be ready for when it comes round again.

[salivanto]

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/34605501/The-Esperanto-audio-is-too-fast-too-slow-not-clear

[Greg854816]

I definitely hear "ŝatOs". The listener doesn't have context but the item is found in a section teaching/testing past and future tense.

[Ariaflame]

I heard ŝatas but it took me several listens to get the next bit.

[Cxoto]

I agree, I can get the written parts correct almost 100% of the time but have to guess when this speaker slurs over the vowels while talking as fast as he can. Have same problem distinguishing between ni & mi

[Mehki227]

So what's the word for sheep?

[Vabelie]

La ŝafo ☺
La ŝaf'ido: the offspring of sheep

sfuspvwf npj

[Ricardo151616]

English isn't my first language, in my native language we say in the same way as esperanto, with the second verb in the infinitive, why playing and not to play? thanks.

[Ariaflame]

Because English allows it is the best I can do. To play is acceptable also. She likes to play and she likes playing are fairly interchangeable in English.

[JustinGumblePuff]

"Sxi sxatas ludas kun la sxafido" would be incorrect, right?

[DavidWolff17]

Right, that would be incorrect. It would mean, "She likes plays with the lamb".