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- "La alberca no tiene agua."
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my translation here was "there is no water in the pool" and i lost a heart. But this means the same as "The pool has no water". The word for word translations can make your sentence sound funny.
Guys, as an English non-native speaker, I hesitate if my translation The pool hasn´t water is in fact correct one, but the machine recognises it as wrong. Basically, is Duolingo right indeed?
Well, if you write your response out completely without the contraction it would read The pool has not water, which is not even correct in English.
yup! I´d go for The pool hasn´t any water but there was no Spanish equivalent of any so I decided to drop it off) Hahaha, nice to learn both languages at once! :)
"Hasn't water" or even better "hasn't any water" is technically correct but a bit uncommon these days, it sounds a bit old-fashioned. The most common way to negate a verb phrase nowadays is to use a conjugation of "do not" (i.e. do not/don't, does not/doesn't)
Thanks, lad! Frankly, I´ve learnt British English and I´m taught that to have predominantly is the verb that doesn´t need other auxilliary verb buddies :) guess, sometimes I can´t help it) Btw, duoLingo regularly falls into Latin American Spanish like ustedes instead of vosotros and is more USA Spanish learners-oriented, am I right?
Most likely you're right, but it seems to allow for the usage of other dialects as well. e.g. Using "have" without an auxillary verb is often allowed, though sometimes not (I usually do this because it's just how I speak, as I sometimes say, Canadian English has the best of both British and U.S. dialects :þ )
lol well it doesn't help that my english ( tho native ) is peppered with local slang myself, and my parents were ancient when they had me.. so i speak youngish/dirtoldish lol...and can hardly be bothered with punctuation. When i am trying to really convey a thought clearly.. thenn, i may utilize those devilish punctuations
otherwise?
eh?
i am all " kinda " " sorta " " ima " " laffin "
yep butchering my own tongue.. think that is why when chatting with some native speakers i incorporate net typed uhm? slave. so quickly..
My dictionary (German-Spanish) explains "alberca" as "cistern". In Spain a pool always is a piscina !
Nope :þ I think ít's etymologically related though (looks related to the Latin "pisces").
Piscina is a swimming pool, alberca is like a cistern or reservoir (or a swimming pool in places).
Pez is fish as in the swimming animal, and pescado is something that has been fished (i.e. fish for eating).
