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"У девочки нет ни мамы, ни папы."
Translation:The girl has neither a mother nor a father.
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Although the meaning is the same, that is more of an interpretation than a translation. I think they are trying to teach you the word for 'neither' here.
"the little girl does not have a mother nor a father" was rejected. Any reason why?
I think it's because they are using the 'neither..nor' here, so 'does not' wouldn't fit into that context. It's similarly used in Spanish as well ('ni...ni'), from what I remember. In some foreign languages they use the same word to say 'neither..nor', unlike in English.
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The correct construction in Englishe would be "has neither xxx nor" or "does not have either xxx or". The construction "Does not have xxx nor" is a double negative, which is not allowed.
The girl neither has a mother nor a father should be accept. Neither placed before the verb sounds best.
so, suddenly, mom and dad are not accepted any more although it has ALWAYS seem to have been, so far, but suddenly, i need to type mother and father? oh maaan. the "nope, wrong" sound annoys me when the "mistake" does not apear as one to me. in russian, i observe many cases of "was right all the time and is no more, all of a sudden"! i notice by myself what i then approvingly read in numerous comments - again and again. sad detail of this otherwise aaaawesome app! i hope the it crowd of duolingo can soon turn this issue off and not on again ;)
Learning Russian, get depression. That's not a language for learning, that's a mentality curse
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Wouldn't be the right translation "The girl doesn't have both mom and dad"? The negation " ni" doesn't mean OR, that's why I don't understand this translation with OR in it.
Your English version negates having only the pair of parents (i.e. she could still have a mom OR a dad, but not both) and does not negate having either parent which is the intent of the Russian sentence.
Likely not that of the children save they be Lizzie Borden or the Menéndez brothers.
Why so many phrase about not having parents? It just feels wrong. Can be painful for people who lost a parent
I wrote she is an orphan and I am also sorry, but my answer was flagged wrong; why?
How is it possible that in some examples the use of commas or lack of them in the answer makes it incorrect? This happens to be one of them.
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The girl neither has a mother nor a father was rejected. Any ideas why? Does the 'has' have to be put before the neither?
