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"Нормальные люди в это время спят."
Translation:Normal people are asleep at that time.
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Duolingo is so much more fun if you imagine all the sentences being written by someone with a serious grudge.
"Normal people are sleeping at this hour". Marked as wrong, but is it? English is my 2nd language, so not sure about this
English is my first language and I wrote that too. Perfectly ok in my opinion.
I agree. I wrote, "Normal people sleep at that hour" and it was marked as incorrect. I reported it.
No, it's in the accusative. в + accusative is used for specific times (someone might be able to phrase that better...)
normal people sleep now - this is the meaning of the sentence, as if an angry mom would tell her child after catching him on his phone in bed at 3am. AnD iT Is nOT aCcePTeD
I agree. It's marginal English, but this is a Russian course and I think literal translations should be accepted if they indicate the Russian was correctly understood, and the English is at least comprehensible. BTW, "normal people are sleeping now" is better but still literal.
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I think it's not accepted because you have 'now' instead of 'at this/that time'. If you take it as 'at that time', it could be said earlier in the day: "Can I pick you up around midnight?" "Normal people sleep at that time." If they wanted 'now', I think сейчас would be used instead.
"Normal people sleep at this hour" - rejected. Is there anything wrong with it?
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How would you say "normally people sleep at this time" which is what I wrote? It's similar to the correct answer, so I'm interested in how you would say it. Thanks
You may have already noticed that нормальные is an adjective, not an adverb.
I hope a native speaker will answer, but I think "в это время люди нормально спят" would translate that. There might be a better order, depending on desired emphasis.
Normal people are asleep at this time and I am playing on my mobile. ...... am I abnormal? ?haha nice selection of words, but I think the Russian sentence means at this time and not at that time, someone can please explain why?
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Это is often used for both, regardless if it's specifically farther off from you or not. То can only mean "that", it is specifically "that thing over there".
Asleep это не глагол, а причастие. Буквально там "люди есть спящие" или "люди являются спящими".
The hints were useless, was about to get perfect score and this last question f*cked me
What time is "that" ? Reading the Russian sentence, I'd translate "at THIS time", which means "at the present time". Isn't it correct ? and why not "are sleeping " ?
