"Кто придумал телефон?"
Translation:Who invented the telephone?
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Actually, "придумал" is more like "thought up". I believe "изобрёл" would have been the more accurate word. Thoughts?
you are right, but in spoken everyday language we are more likely to put it exactly like this: кто придумал -- it is not incorrect and most people would say that
No, I confirm the set expression "кто придумал" with a connotation "invented" is absolutely correct.
К сожалению, мир узнаёт того, кто первым запатентовал свое изобретение(((
Сова Дуо придумала телефон, интернет и горячую воду. Она больше интеллигентная чем Эдисон и Тесла вместе.
That's more the process of improvement after something has been invented or thought up.
No, unfortunately not. This is because, grammatically speaking, кто is masculine singular.
кто думал о телефоне.... В слове "придумал" приставка "при" да, но... в данном случае придумал = изобрел. К примеру, "какой дурак придумал этот закон?" тут уже будет именно придумал.What the fool came up with this law?
As mentioned, in the context of 'invention' the verb 'thought up', rather than 'thought of' is more appropriate.
Why it is wrong? -- Did who invent the telephone?
And why here is not did? -- Who invented the telephone?
'Who invented the telephone?' is correct. You would only use 'did' for emphasis. For example 'If it wasn't Alexander Graham Bell, then who did invent the telephone?
As a native English speaker I sense a slight difference in meaning between изобрести and придумать, since thanks to the example above about law, it's clear laws are not invented, but 'thought up'..
Придумать - to think sth up, to come up with, to make up
Изобрести - to invent
Hope that helps.
Because in this case we are talking about a known, and therefore definite, object. It’s the same as saying, ‘we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel’. Since something has been invented it is assumed to be known. If we were to use ‘a’ (indefinite), it could mean any phone (and immediately we need more information). Compare: “Apple invented the smartphone.” “Apple invented a phone that allowed people to interface with a large number of powerful applications via a touchscreen while retaining core functionality.” Hope that helps.
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Can I say 'Who thinked of a phone' by analogy with another task in this lesson: "I wrote a story but I cannot think of a title"? Thank you.
Sorry, no. You could say "Who thought up the telephone", meaning "Who was the originator of the idea". If someone thought of a phone, they might simply be thinking about the next one that they would get.
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This is super fascinating. In German, an (archaic) expression for "to invent" is "erdenken", literally "to think up", very similar to "придумать" in its structure.
