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- "Они спрашивают, где коробка."
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why isnt 'they ask where the box is' accpeted? also, even though it didnt accept it it still had it as an alternate translation when i put in the 'correct' answer
"Попросить"/"Просить" (perfective/imperfective respectively) means to ask for something.
"Спросить"/"Спрашивать" (ditto) means to ask a question.
525
It's спрашивать, not спросить. But anyway, I don't specifically know the answer to your question. From what I've seen, the с- prefix added to a verb usually adds the "from (off)" meaning of с (rather than the "with"meaning) to the verb. I can't confirm whether that's definitely what's happening here. просить and спросить clearly have very similar meanings and it's hard to pin down the subtle differences between the two.
- 525
Because где doesn't mean whether and because your sentence doesn't make sense in English.
"Sprashavut" -> спрашивают... tough one if you're trying to stick to audio-only.
There is no such thing as "gender-neutral" unless you oppose that term to "gender-feminine" and "gender-masculine". There is masculine, femenine, and neutral genders though.
