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- "У мамы дома есть стол."
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I think because "(at) home"/"дома" is an adverb or adverbial phrase, while "in her house"/"в её доме" is a prepositional phrase. Just guessing.
I think "в её доме" is also an adverb phrase. You're right though - it's also a prepositional phrase because like the English version of "дома" it begins with a preposition. Prepositional phrase is always either a noun, adjective or adverb phrase as well. I think the "wrong" answers given should be accepted, but wonder whether the variety of answers that get across similar meanings are too complex for the algorithms to cope with?????
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E o infinitivo "comer" é есть
Por que você está escrevendo em Português em um site de língua inglesa?
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At least what I have observed to this point in the course is that additional information about the object is included in the "у ххх есть/нет" construction. Think of exercises where we have had to use уже, сейчас or ничего. This may be one of those "neutral" word orders the course favors and I cannot speak to ther possible translations. I do have to say that I think I'm getting the hang of using this structure. I got the sentence structure right, but I'm reporting anyway as I used desk instead of table for стол.
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I take that to mean that she doesn't have a table when she's not at home. Or maybe she leaves, and the table stays at home.
Or maybe she has a table at her house.
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Capitalized "Mom" is a proper noun (a.k.a. name), not just almost, and as such, it should always be capitalized, per the grammar gods, while "the mom," "his mom," etc. should always be in lowercase.
998
I'm not a native speaker, but from what I understand, the phrase is emphasizing more on the mom's house having a table than on the mom's table being on the house
@nir_sh - If you want to use the preposition в, it takes prepositional case, which makes дом -> доме (в доме).
If you were to say that, it would be putting a bigger emphasis on the fact that she has a chair inside of her house. It would almost be answering the question, "Where does mom have her chair?"
That is instead of the general idea of having a chair at home, like in this sentence, which sounds like the response to "Let's buy mom a chair!" (and then... "Mom has a chair at home", she doesn't need another one).
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Duolingo sometimes accepts small spelling errors, but it's kinda random when they're going to accept it and when they're going to mark it wrong