"Fioletowe spodnie i szara bluza"

Translation: Violet trousers and a gray sweatshirt

[Dan162878]

"Purple pants and a grey sweatshirt" was not accepted

[Timoak100]

Violet trousers and a grey sweatshirt is not accepted why?

[Neil395069]

Because it's a fashion faux pas :D

[paul661061]

Why is it coming up as incorrect when using Grey instead of Gray. None have before

[CosmicAvatar]

I put "purple trousers and a grey sweatshirt" and it said I needed an article at the beginning of the sentence, yet the translation above has no article at the beginning (which which I agree - it's not always necessary). Does that need to be corrected?

[joleneybean]

why is BLOUSE not acceptable for bluza? In my Polish classes, bluza was any kind of woman's shirt/blouse.

[immery]

blouse is "bluzka".

[SteveLamb2]

When i first started using Duolingo, bluza meant both blouse and sweatshirt. When did it change?

[Jellei]

Perhaps when we reached the skill "Clothing" in the process of creation of Tree 2.0, and we had to rethink if all the current translations are correct.

[duygusjoblom]

What is the difference between fioletowy and purpurowy? (I'm asking because I had learned purple as "purpurowy" before)

[vytah]

In Polish, purpurowy is a reddish shade of fioletowy.

In English, violet is a light-blueish shade of purple.

When you don't need to distinguish shades in detail, use purple in English and fioletowy in Polish.

[Trofaste]

So you would describe this as purpurowy:

And this as fioletowy:

That right?

[Emwue]

Pretty much. You can always check the list of colours on Polish Wikipedia to see the examples of all Polish colour names – pretty nifty thing for a language learner, I imagine. ;)

[duygusjoblom]

Thank you!

[Martin0504]

Bluza can't be translated as sweatshirt or hoodie?

[Jellei]

"sweatshirt" is the default answer, "hoodie" is usually accepted but was forgotten here - added now.

[Martin0504]

Thank you! My default answer was ''top'', that's why asked.

[Mimi127747]

Gray or grey?

[Jellei]

Both are correct, 'gray' is usually used in the US, 'grey' in the UK.

[Verena539452]

Pair of trousers should be allowed for spodnie

[Jellei]

"a pair of" worked already, added "the pair of" and just "pair of".

[Christine741374]

Translation was as above but marked wrong because it did not start The violet.......

[AndyShep2]

There are 2 ways to spell the English for szary: Grey and Gray :-)

[margotgm]

fioletowe is PURPLE so why is this given as wrong- this is crazy - sort it out please

[margotgm]

Please change this to accept purple as well

[Scott101822]

It doesn't take purple pants as a synonym for violet trousers.

[Timoak100]

Problematic, UK pants means under pants, US pants means trousers. So duo needs to differentiate between the two

[SteveLamb2]

Just in case other post (reply to Maria) isn't seen,will post separately. When i first started using Duolingo, bluza translated as sweatshirt/blouse. When did this change?

[Verena539452]

Other language resources will allow blouse as translation

[Jellei]

That's really "bluzka".

[GianMarco786908]

"Violet trousers and gray sweatshirt" seems correct to me, without article. It's considered an error!

[AndyShep2]

Why is purple incorrect?

[margotgm]

I wrote 'purple trousers and grey sweatshirt' and was marked incorrect. answer said I needed to say 'a' grey sweatshirt.- it was a phrase and the definite article is not essential here.
What I wrote was correct

[Gracia2000]

It's still not accepting "grey": my Polish might not be improving but my American English is coming on in leaps and bounds!

[JackHolmes3]

This question is inconsistent with all previous questions as for some reason it wouldn't accept purple for 'fioletowe' and sweater for 'bluza' that it had done in all previous questions :(

[AnneMacek]

"Violet pants and a grey sweatshirt" was not accepted. The reason was (with the first 3 letters in violet underlined):

You need the article "The" here.
Violet trousers and a gray sweatshirt

[JackHolmes3]

I have to agree with others who have commented on this as in a general English conversation the article "The" can often be omitted from a sentence like this

[PeterDalby1]

Why not sweater, I'm English and have always called a sweatshirt a sweater?

[Timoak100]

Sweater is a knitted jumper, sweatshirt is a woven fabric in my UK experience

[AxleDam]

I see from other comments that this question has a lot of issues. I might add... The drop-down word translation lists fioletowy as violet or purple. But purple is not accepted.
Other questions accept Sweater for Bluza.

[Polskana]

Bluza does work, my Polish mom says it is just a synonym - different, but it works.