"Heute geht es ihm besser als gestern."
Translation:Today he is feeling better than yesterday.
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They don't accept "Today he is better than yesterday." but they accept "Today he's is better than yesterday." Nice... There are a lot of mistakes in this module. I haven't seen as obvious mistakes in other modules as in this one.
It seems natural to translate this sentence from German to English as "Today is going better for him than yesterday." Did anybody else try this one, or does anybody disagree?
I thought so at least, and tried to be a bit literal in the translation (sometimes that works when the "correct" answers aren't very idiomatic): "Today it is going better for him than yesterday."
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I reported it a week ago. So far I've gotten one reply from Duolingo that they fixed the error that I'd reported (not this particular one, though).
Also, as you hover over the German text for the English translation, besser is still written as besser, not better.
Does this expression require a reference to feeling? Couldn't he just have a bad day with flat tires and spilled coffee yesterday, but "Today it is going better for him than yesterday"?
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I would like to hear how Germans distinguish these two also - if at all. Everything lesson I've seen references how you feel. So how do Germans talk about John's example above?
A fairly literal translation:
Heute - Today
geht es - it goes
ihm - for him (so yes, "he" which is the subject in the English translation)
besser - better
als - than
gestern. - yesterday.
