"הן נשים."

Translation: They are women.

[flootzavut]

Okay, apparently the select the missing word questions do not like right to left - the sentence temporarily came out as נשים הן instead of הן נשים. Colour me momentarily confusled... 8-o

[Luke_5.1991]

This is a bug.

[flootzavut]

I figured! It struck me as amusing as much as anything. Though very confusing for a moment!

[nomaddie]

Is it gonna get, like, fixed

[littlemiss1123]

It hasn' t been for at least 2 years, so doubtful. Duo seems to only care about European languages.

[AviMarcus1]

still broken on chrome on windows 2017-10-13

[synp]

Still the same December 2016 Safari on Mac

[flootzavut]

Oh dear! It's been working right for me for a while (Safari on iOS). Maybe the fix isn't universal :(

[ChungServant]

IF YOU NEED:

PLURAL <- SINGER

אני -> אנחנו (I -> we: Common)

אתה -> אתם (.you -> you: Mas)

את -> אתן (you -> you: Female)

הוא -> הם (He -> they)

היא -> הן (She -> they)

[DanJ2017]

Weird, I wrote "they are women" and it didn't accept my answer...

[ShimonJaco]

Me too

[NoamKriten]

Are you sure? This is also the suggested translation. What was your error message?

[JayJackJohnson]

Why is women not not "נשות"

[synp]

If anything the question should be why isn't it "אישות" because the singular is "אישה".

There's an old Aramaic word for man that made it into Hebrew: "נש". Although it is masculine, this is used mostly as a gender-neutral person. And yet נשים is obviously derived from that while still being the plural of אישה.

So the answer to your "why" question is "because languages are weird"

HTH

[schyrsivochter]

This phenomenon is called suppletion, by the way.

[danny912421]

Hen nashím.