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"У меня нос и рот как у папы, а уши — как у мамы."
Translation:I have my dad's nose and mouth and my mom's ears.
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Please don't correct me when I put Mum's instead of Mom's. Over the pond, we spell it Mum.
Report it, they were pretty weak on Briticisms at first but it's improving.
"My nose and my mouth are like my father's, but the ears are like my mother's."
Seems like a correct translation to me.
"But my ears" - it sounds quite odd otherwise. Other than that it seems fine to me too.
Thanks. Yes, I know it sounds weird, but I'm just putting a "the" everywhere because otherwise Duolingo doesn't accept my translation when I forget to put an "a" in front of a word. And if I force myself to use "the" everywhere it sounds so ridiculous that I tend not to forget. :)
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Why don't they accept "I have a nose and a mouth like my dad and ears like my mom"? It is wrong to use the indefinite article after "and" ?
Add another vote. This is the literal translation, and it's perfectly good English.
Ditto "I have a nose and eyes like dad's, and ears like mom's".
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It is not wrong but unnecessary. It would probably be more common to say.. I have a nose and mouth...
The issue with your sentence though is: like my dad/like my mom
In spoken English, it is commonly heard - but what is actually meant is: 'I have a nose and mouth like my dad HAS or like my dad's'. Your sentence is considered grammatically poor and 'shouldn't' be written in English.
I think the problem arises for the translators/course makers because it is still unusual or frowned upon to end a sentence with a possessive adjective (in written English) - those apostrophe S's.
There is an argument to include your answer - but in its written form, it means, your dad is like your nose and mouth.
Since Mum/Dad are in the genitive they should just use possessive adjectives or better yet the verb (have) and make it the answer to which your sentence defaults. This would allow for fairly direct translations
I entered exactly the same thing. I think it's just hard for DL to accept all possible variations on a sentence like this. I've reported it, though - it seems like a pretty obvious choice. With any luck, the Russian team is as responsive as the Swedish team and they'll add it ...
This sentence can be translated many different and correct ways but DUO STICKS just to one despite many good suggestions Too Bad!
Same reason as you need it at the start: my nose is like my dad 's [nose].
I think the English sentence should be closer to the actual Russian statement.
“I have my dad’s nose...” The English sentence is a bit confusing because I’ve never heard it worded in such a way.
Generally I agree - I prefer to learn Russian and not get distracted. How are you used to seeing this? "I have a nose and mouth like my father and ears like my mother"? Which variant of English do you speak?
The course contributor who built this question may have wanted to avoid making users respond with other structures, such as пахож на. Or may not have thought of this better way to phrase the English.
I think saying "i have my dad's nose and ears..." Is perfectly acceptable. Any English speaking person would understand you were talking about likeness and not actually possessing their body parts
I had to choose from a word bank, used all the words, and got the remark "you have an extra space". What does it mean? Never got it before
You can add "my" but basically these words are not in the Russian sentence, therefore they are not necessary in translation
Yes, but they make for more natural-sounding English. Translation involves a lot more than simple word-to-word correlation. It's a balance between remaining as true as possible to the original language and achieving something that sounds natural in the target language.
When you say У меня рот как папы does that mean that I speak like my dad or that my mouth looks like my dad's mouth.
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I don't know (it can definitely mean the latter), but the ambiguity is there in English with that sentence, in that it could mean either. I think in Russian, you need another у in your sentence in any case, though. I don't think it is optional.
Yes. Consonants at the ends of words get de-voiced in Russian. Like luggage - багаж - being pronounced багаш. I read somewhere that ignoring this will sound to a native Russian speaker as silly as it would sound to a native English speaker if you voiced consonants that aren't meant to be (fife -> five, buck -> bug &c.).
He-he, or it will make you sound like an Ukrainian, ending consonants don‘t get devoiced at the end of a word. Also, Ukrainian has a strong оканье, pronouncing all о’s clearly; something someone why just has started learning Russian might do. ;)
холод (.ukr._) = ['xɔlɔd], and not [ˈxolət] as in Russian.
Thank you for answering! Спасибо за ответ, Едмунд!
Would it be possible to say "У меня нос и рот как папа, а уши — как мама"?
That sounds like your nose and mouth look like [all of] your dad rather than your dad's nose and mouth.
So you can say it, but you probably don't mean it…
...This, and many other variations, should be accepted:
"I have the nose and mouth of my dad, and my mom's ears."
Your version is grammatically correct, but it sounds awkward. "My dad's nose and mouth..." is more comfortable and natural.
The problem with this sentence is that although sense and meaning are fully clear there are obviously too many possibilities of translating it into English. So either Duolingo should allow for additional renderings or, if this technically proves to be too painstaking, remove this sentence at all and replace it by something else.
"My nose and mouth are similar to father's and ears similar to mother's" What is wrong?
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Папа чей? а мама чья? соседа или друга? Где в русском предложении информация о родстве папы?
They sound quite different - for a start, the syllable stress changes and the final vowels sound quite different. Try listening on Forvo (recommended resource):
https://forvo.com/word/%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B8/#ru
https://forvo.com/word/%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5/#ru
В принципе, перепутать "звонкие" и соответствующие "глухие" согласные на слух в русском языке - вполне возможно. There is always some difference, right. But most of us don't articulate THAT well all of the time.
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It's good English to say I have Dad's ears instead of my Dad's ears; either one works. The same thing of course is true of Mom. Please correct your app.
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Is this (semi-)literally "I have a nose and mouth as [my] dad has, and ears as [my] mom has"? And/or does как mean "like"?
it similiar to have their nose ,mouth and ears , not to have a nose,mouth,ears like them (mom&dad), this sounds creepy
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I have the nose and mouth of my father but the ears of my mother - think this should be added as a correct translation, too.
