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You don’t. That’s bad English. ‘See’ is a stative verb.
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Are you seeing means to have a relationship with someone. It is not likely that you have a relationship with a fish.
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It can also be used literally. As in do you see that fish - he is hot pink! Or, are you seeing the fish? (Or did I just imagine the clouds looking exactly like the fish in my tank?)
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"Did" is past tense, therefor: "did you see the fish?" = ?ראיתם את הדג, and "do you see the fish?" = "אתם רואים את הדג?"
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The correct response shown to me was "Can you see the fish?" --- I would think there would be a different word for "can," "to be able to."
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Actually this question asks whether you see the fish or not, and not about your ability to see it, so I believe "Can you see the fish" shouldn't be accepted.
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Colloquial language is more important for Duolingo than exact translations. As it should be.
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We don't have 'et' in English, of course. We use it in Hebrew in front of a definite direct object. That is, a word with 'the' that a subject is doing something to. ex: Annie eats the apple -- Annie eats 'et' the apple. || 'et' comes before 'the apple' to let us know that the apple is being acted upon (being eaten) by the subject (Annie). We don't put 'et' in front of Annie because she is the subject, not direct object. We also would not put it in front of 'an apple' because 'an' (not that an equivalent word exists in Hebrew, but the concept exists, of course) denotes an indefinite [direct] object.
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Thank you so much! This really makes "et" make so much more sense, תודה!
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The information is in the tips & notes, if you're in the app you won't see this. Let me know I'll post the links
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why they read it atim not atem? I didnt know what to write so I wrote atim and of course it was wrong
