"У мальчика и девочки нет хлеба."
Translation:The boy and the girl do not have bread.
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Is it necessary to not allow "The boy and girl don't have bread." ? In English this is a parallel and the second 'the' is not needed.
You are correct - the second "the" is unnecessary (although certainly allowed) here.
Thank you so much for this screen shot! Now maybe Zirkul can do something helpful.
Why is it девочки if it is just one girl? Shouldnt it just be девочка?
So why is "The boy and girl have no bread," not accepted.. the second 'the' is not needed in english..
While your sentence sounds better in English, it actually has a slightly different meaning: it does not combine the boy and the girl into one entity. The Russian translation of your sentence is:
Ни у мальчика, ни у девочки нет хлеба.
Duo children have no parents now they have no food. Why does it have to be so depressing...
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Another sentence an English speaker would never say. We say, "the boy and girl don't have bread." Why doesn't it understand "don't?"
Duo most certainly understands "don't"; you must have made a mistake elsewhere.
I just entered "The boy and girl don't have bread." It was not accepted. Duo continues to insist on THE girl, as far as I can see.
I have just copied your answer and tested it: it works. Please take a screen shot next time.
You have amazing patience, so i'll say it for you: READ THE ABOVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BEFORE ASKING YOURS°° They are often already anwered.
I've typed what they say is the correct answer 5 times and they keep marking it incorrect.
Yes, this question is fiendishly frustrating. I think it must be some kind of glit h in the software. Try typing in one of the sentences Zircul, above, says is accepted. When that doesn't work, send him a screen shot. Maybe he can figure it out.
that is the genetive case of the boy and the girl ok i got it. But how about "boys and girls"? by example : The boys and the girls don't have bread?
"Neither the boy nor the girl has bread" is not accepted. Is it bad English and/or wrong translation?
"Neither...nor" (ни...ни) is a different construction than "X and Y don't" (X и Y не) in both languages, even if the meaning is essentially the same.
What about "The boy and the girl does not have bread" is that grammatically correct?
No, it is not correct. "The boy and the girl" is a plural subject, so you need "do not have".