"Were you using my toothbrush?"
Translation:Używałeś mojej szczoteczki do zębów?
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Only that this is at least grammatical, though nonsensical - if you treat it as 'taking for a walk' ;) While the 'Polish' sentence isn't...
Good point. Can "chodzić" even be used transitively? Wiktionary suggests "Wyprowadzić" for this...
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I guess... Duolinguo should start making a difference between thou and ye in the context of different languages... I mean... ¡Almost every language in the planet has a distinction between plural and singular "you"!
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You can't expect Duolingo to actually use thee/thou/thine as English words, because this would mis-lead people who are learning English as a foreign language. English does not use that form any more - we only use plural/formal you.
It is correct, and it's also put correctly on the list of answers, so it shouldn't give such a highlight... perhaps something else was wrong? The grading algorithm has problems with showing what exactly was wrong.
Interesting. That was copy and pasted from my answer; I did have another typo (I don't remember what, exactly), but "używałaś" was definitely highlighted. Just a bug, I guess. Thanks for clarifying.
It's not unknown for Duo to highlight the wrong thing as a typo. If you have no actual wrongly spelled words, but you get the word order wrong, that can trigger typo reports on one of more of the correct words.
I think this and several other answers should give the singular translation of 'you' rather than the plural as the preferred solution. The plural is particularly revolting n this sentence.
Well, it's even more gross than singular, true. Okay, I guess I can make the plural not a suggested answer anymore.
On our side, every type of audio exists for "używałeś". Perhaps you had some one-time bug.
Why doesn't 'uzywałeś' work? Are only wonen guilty of using other people's toothbrushes?
"Używałeś" (note "ż") is the main answer (see the top of this very page).
That was a typo but I actually tried używałeś a few times and besides it's not normally a problem to miss off accents. For some reason it didn't work for me...
Well, it could be that you made an error somewhere else in the sentence, and Duo just happened to show you the "używałaś" version as the correct answer.
A screenshot would be good if you can make it happen again.
Is that not "did you use" rather than "were you using"? (perfective versus imperfective...)
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I'd say that "have you used" is quite clearly perfective and "were you using" is clearly imperfective (so I agree that "użyłeś" doesn't work here). "Did you use" is rather ambiguous, it can cover both aspects.
We'll actually go with "Have you been using", we think it should work best.
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Obviously there's no universal English tense to translate those past imperfective verbs. In this case, present perfect continuous indeed seems to work quite well.