"Этот человек не видит ложку."
Translation:This person does not see the spoon.
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Why the hell does the female voice stress the second syllable in ложку? I can read and write pretty well in Russian, also understand a lot, I started Duo for improving my spoken Russian. But this is full of incorrectly stressed words that destroys my language skills instead of improving it.
Please Duo, get rid of these wrong stresses. Pleeeeeease!
Men can't see spoons, girls can't see snakes, women don't know a particular snake, and boys don't know his father.
Неправильное ударение. В словах Ложка, ложки, ложку, ложкой, о ложке оно всегда падает на "О"
нет should be mostly "no" like the opposite to "yes" while не is "not" and it is connected with a verb.
In a sentence: нет, это не правда = No, that's not true.
Just beware the translation of "I don't have = у меня нет" which is an exception.
I remember by thinking не is not and нет is no, the mumber of leters is backwards to each other.. I.E the Russian not is short and the Russian no is long. Hope this helps
"This person cannot see the spoon" is wrong but "... doesn't ..." is correct. Is there a different word for cannot vs does not?
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Cannot has a different meaning, showing that the person is unable to see the spoon, instead of simply not seeing it. I believe the translation would be "Этот человек не может видеть ложку".
Would a colloquial translation "This guy does not see the spoon" be appropriate?
Ложку not лошку. Used to mix up the two alphabets too, but I made a note of it and since then I have become better at it. Hope this helps you, too :)
So you do not accept "man" instead of "person"... this program looks like a robot to me :(
Actually...it's just totally wrong. To say "spoons" in this sentence it would be Этот человек не видит ложек.
It has to do with the genitive of negation. User Nikiton85 states: "To avoid an ambiguity, in negations the object normally turns to genitive. If the context is transmitted totally clearly, you still can use both genitive and accusative: Он не видит ложку/ложки in singular, and Он не видит ложки/ложек in plural. Though genitive is preferred." Further discussion is found at: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/39274078
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Sick of how often the audio has the wrong emphasis... please fix this Duo! The word ложка literally never has the emphasis on the final syllable.
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Is ложку pronounced Lozhku or Lozhko? The spelling seems to be Lozhku but the pronunciation sounds like Lozhko.