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- "They don't have good wine."
"They don't have good wine."
Translation:אין להם יין טוב.
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Why isn't "אין להן" accepted as a valid solution? (I understand someone posed the same question in Hebrew here below, but I can't understand the answer yet.)
They didn't call it incorrect but just called it a typo. Still doesn't make sense.
He wrote that it should be correct and he is going to report it (im pretty sure)
I am with you and with the first comment. I would love to know what the answer was to that first question in Hebrew. The question is not a problem though.. Thanks to all.
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You are wrong. טוב is linked to יין, which is masculine. It has nothing to do with the subject of the sentence and both להם and להן should be accepted. Otherwise it would have been טובים since "they" is plural.
We can change the order from יש להם to להם יש, but we can't do the same with אין?
Why is להן a typo? The sentence doesn't specify male or female?????
- 756
Please, report it then. Writing here in the forum does not get the message to the course creators.
I think within the lesson they're looking for specific verbiage - "good" not "tasty." Even though one adjective implies the other in conversation.
If Hebrew behaves like Arabic one male in a group will cause the plural pronoun to be masculin. So the fem. plural pronoun is rarely used in practise, except you really want to insist on a group being exclusive feminine.
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Just noting that as of today, Sept. 21, 2020, the typo comment after answering "אין להן" still hss not been corrected. It will say the answer should have been "אין להם" when both are correct seeing the sentence does not specify a male, female, or male and female audiance.
