"This is a truck."
Translation:זאת משאית.
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"massaïte" You can find pronounciation of hebrew words on this website:
I wrote זות מסית instead of זאת משאית and it accepted it! thanks but why? ^^'
It accepts typos of up to one wrong letter per word; I guess this was considered okay.
Well the shin ש and samech ס make the same sound so I SUPPOSE Duo let you slide. In the pictographical form they mean different things.
This answer choice was odd. I only had זה and זאת for options but it told me the correct answer was זו. Lol how duolingo.... how.
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And you picked זה, right? Well, that is a mistake, because as it has been pointed out, משאית is feminine, so you should have picked זאת. When we make a mistake, the system tries to show the closest possible answer to the one given, and the closest to זה is זו, which is the same as זאת. It's not that only זו is correct - both זאת and זו are correct.
Yes many feminine words end in ת (tav). It's a good hint but it's only in general, there are exceptions. For example זית (olive) is a masculine noun.
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It would be really helpful to hear the word spoken as it is uploaded, as with other languages on Duolingo.
The hints show "זה" as the correct answer, not "זו", but when I type "זה", it says I have a typo, that I should write "זו" instead of "זה". Why are the hints so confusing??
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Because hints don't know what the context is. They always list the most common translation for a word first, and זה is indeed the most common translation of "this". However, since משאית is feminine, זאת or זו are the correct answers (זה being masculine). Hints are just as their name suggests - hints. They help us by reminding us the word, but it's up to us to find the proper inflection of the word needed and write it in the answer.
We’re seeing new words which were never taught expecting to translate them.
