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- "L'eau est sale."
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I said it in english accidentally, and it still accepted it. Then I tried saying completely unrelated things, and it still took it. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever had my speaking rejected...
I have; sometimes I have to pronounce it worse (with pauses between the words, which good French should not have) to get it to accept it.
I haven't tried saying anything incorrectly. Maybe it only records you so you can play it back, and it only rejects the recording if it can't hear you well enough to record the sound?
this is confusing, i thought it said the wolf is dirty: le loup est sale, but noooo it had to be the water is dirty .-. there are very similar words in french specially when it comes to pronunciating it, this thing doesn't make any changes in the variations of words/
No, actually water is feminine. I think that the masculine version of sale is sal.
No, the masculine is also "sale", although you're right that "eau" is feminine.
Im sure duo never taught me "sale" before. And it sucks that this one doesnt tell you the translation of the word, while the desktop version does.
The Android version gives the translation if you tap the word. But sometimes that stops working if I take a long pause in the middle of the lesson.
Question: I know that French employs definite articles in many cases where English would use no article at all, but is it also more common in French to use the definite article where English might be more likely to employ demonstrative adjectives 'this' or 'that' or possessive adjectives 'my', 'your', 'her', etc.?
I ask, because, having introduced demonstrative and possessive adjectives, Duolingo rarely employs them in sentences, such as we have here, where they would make sense and be very commonly used in English. I've noticed that, outside of the specific units that introduced both demonstrative, and to a lesser degree, possessive adjectives, these are rarely given in example sentences where they might be. This leaves me wondering if they are just not as common in French as they are in English.
