"ברווזות לא שותות בירה."

Translation: Female ducks do not drink beer.

[morvan82]

However, male ducks do drink beer.

[joe648745]

Drakes drink draught ?

[PeterAndro]

LOL

[Ben4356989]

Heh heh

[belridetulo]

אבל ברווזים שותים בירה :)

[CarissaS103]

Of course not! They drink apple juice.

[danny912421]

barvazót lo shotót bíra.

[FebruaryyXIX]

Well, there goes my plan for the night.

[israellai]

That's a big slap in the face to duolingo haha

[JoelC8]

how so?

[KarlBenesc]

Why couldn't it also be, "Ducks are not drinking beer."

[bar_an]

I would accept that. Hebrew has only one present tense, so basically you should be right. But on the other hand, this sentence is about ducks in general (otherwise it would be in definite form הברווזות) and not about something that is happening right now...

[KarlBenesc]

That does make sense. Thank you for clarifying that for me.

[Amidah2]

Yeah, but it still should be correct.

[brendoncdodd]

I thought that for it to me a generalization sentence it would have to be something הברווזות הן לא שותות בירה. Am I getting itvwrong?

[YardenNB]

No, since שותות is a verb, so it doesn't take the copula הן.

(This is not 100% precise, only 99%. The details are a bit compilicated, so LMK if you want them...)

[Ani_sofer]

I guess technically it could be, but that is just an odd sounding sentence.

[KarlBenesc]

True. Thanks.

[Iliya613]

Why "ducks" is not capitalized? The only capitalized word there is Hebrew, but it doesn't make any sense.

[bezdalai]

Why do i have to specify "female ducks". Wouldn't simply ducks be enough in english?

[pesach9]

You dont have to.

[JorgeHFloresA]

why ברווזות sounds like "bar-va-soht" and no like "bar-oh-ohts-ohth"?

[YardenNB]

Not sure I understand your question. I think it's more useful to take the sequence of sounds /bar-va-zot/ as given (though it's a fair question how, historically, this sounds sequence came to mean female ducks), and the sequence of letters as a way of signalling the given sequence of sounds.

There is at least one other letters sequence, which is not an actual word, that might give the same sound sequence; and many other sound sequences, none of which is an actual word, that could be signalled with the same letter sequence.

[TeribleT]

Yarden, this word, barvazot, for female plural ducks doesn't exist in any Hebrew dictionary I can find, it's not in Reverso, Google translate, pealim, Wikipedia Hebrew, or my Hebrew to English huge Webster's dictionary.

[YardenNB]

Do all these sources purport to explicitly contain all forms of a word? ברווזות is just a natural declension (pardon for maybe wrong term) of ברווז. Do they contain זאבות, אווזות, איילות, סוסות? How about מנהלות and ספורטאיות?

[j.duo498154]

In arabic we say אוזה إوزة for goose

[Becca_RNR]

The ducks don't drink beer but the doves drink wine. Okay Duolingo.

הברווזות לא שותות בירה, אבל היונות שותות יין. בסדר דואלינגו.

[loveJesusb1]

By extension from משלי 6 "go to the duck you drunkard..." Hallelujah

[SamyFromSkyKru]

Kind of statements I'd say when im drunk

[ngel703661]

Duck Donald does!

[KKKKKKisha]

I wonder if I will ever use this sentence when I visit Israel again! Lol

[Rhonda859305]

I think it's not true. I think the true sentence is that "Ducks do not drink beer from beer mugs. "