"Нарисуй, пожалуйста, оба дома."

Translation: Draw both houses, please.

[Vedun]

both

оба

just a quick mnemonic.

[jskullberg]

I wrote, "Draw, please, both houses." This should also be a correct answer.

[domhorse89]

This is unfortunately a really unnatural way of saying it in English. "Please" tends to go either at the beginning or the end of the thing you're requesting.

[Tjimsitt]

There are situations and methods of speaking where you can do it though, and it's not wrong.

[Atropos2015]

Why is it acceptable then? Who's mistaken?

[Jeffrey855877]

In English, there are only two ways of translating the Russian:
Please draw both houses
Draw both houses, please

Placing "please" inside the sentence is not natural English, so "Draw, please, both houses" is unnatural, non-idiomatic English. It's not "wrong", in the sense that you wouldn't be understood, it's just bad English, and you'd instantly be recognized as a non-native speaker.

[Atropos2015]

I know about the more natural "please" position. And I am not going to place "please" inside a sentence. I asked why it is acceptable. I.e. did a non-native make it acceptable?

[syoungoa]

If "sketch" is also a possible translation of "Нарусуй" why is "Please sketch both houses not accepted?

[Jeffrey855877]

"Please sketch both houses" not accepted 21 Apr 2019. Reported.

[margarita.hdp]

after the word 'оба' - is the word after it genitive case? For example: I saw both films --> я посмотрела оба филмов.

[Imnuts7]

оба refers to two which then takes the genitive singular.

[FXCu]

Я посмотрела оба фильма.

[newguy25]

The word дома is not pronounced correctly here, right? When in plural form, it's pronounced differently.

[AndrewMat85]

It is genitive singular and pronounced correctly

[Ari675341]

So, just to be clear, if it is genitive singular, it is pronounced дОма, and if plural, домА?
Like, "Эти домА красивые."?

[Leslie509391]

Yep: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC#Russian

[Henry132109]

Right

[speedfranklin]

I wrote "Sketch both houses, please" since that is one of the translations for Нарисуй that Duolingo suggested and it was marked as wrong. Am I mistaken?

[Jeffrey855877]

"Please sketch both houses" not accepted 21 Apr 2019. Reported.