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- "Vi spiser kokkenes mat."
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This is both plural AND possessive- therefore it has to be an apostrophe after "the cooks"!
Indeed it is, and that's also our recommended translation which is shown up top.
If you have issues with the plural possessive being graded incorrectly for this sentence and/or being shown a possessive without the required apostrophe as a recommended answer, please take a screenshot and make a thread about it in the Troubleshooting forum and/or report it as a bug.
Remember to make it clear that this is a recurring issue affecting all plural possessives, and not just a case of a missing accepted translation.
We made the developers aware of this issue over a year ago, but new features keep getting priority over bug fixes. Perhaps a little more user attention in channels they actually read might do the trick.
For me this shows the apostrophe in this discussion thread, but it's not shown in the actual exercise. Definitely a typo or bug. I think typo. I saw this exact same issue in two exercises after this one in the same lesson.
Why does duolingo keep telling me the apostrophe is a typo who can I complain to about this
Because "kokkene" already means the cooks (definite plural), so adding possessive-S makes it the food that belongs collectively to the many cooks.
If it was just the cook's (definite singular) food, that would be "kokkens mat".
Refining your English grammar rules while learning foreign languages, it always happens! ;)
"Cook's" indicates a thing or things that belong to one cook. "Cooks'" indicate a thing or things that belong to two or more cooks. Using an apostrophe between the K and the S indicates a singular cook. Using an apostrophe after the S always indicates plural cooks. Example #1: "Those are the cook's books." (This indicates one cook and two or more books.) Example #2: "That is the cooks' book." (This indicates a singular book that belongs to two or more cooks.) (Also, pay your cooks more so that they can all afford their own books.)
"Cook's" can also indicate a contraction. Example #3: "The cook's reading his book." This has the exact same meaning as: "The cook is reading his book." It would only be used with a singular cook.
Thank you for refreshing my knowledge of English grammar. So would it be the idea to write "the cooks's" , the first s telling you it is more than one cook and the second that it it is possessive, but since it looks silly and is not pronounceable, you drop the second s?
I was gonna come here to say 'we are eating the cook's food' wasn't accepted but if you're doing that too, 'kokkenes' is definitive plural for 'cook', which means more than one cook made the food so the apostrophe placement is significant in English
- 'the cook's food' = food made by/belonging to one cook
- 'the cooks' food' = food made by/belonging to more than one
if that helps but one person I'm happy lol
How do you distinguish between present/ past/ future tense. Cuz I thought we are eating the cook's food cuz i usually cover up the answers and try to answer it on my own just to see if i get it right.
The word bank has no option to choose >cooks' <, only >cooks<, please fix it :)
That does not make sense. I thought it was talking about one cook. It could also belong to that specific one cook. "We eat the cook's food" should be accepted as an answer regardless if Duolingo sees it differently.
