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actors would be színészeket ... the addition of "nő" in the word specifically means actresses.
Don't think there's anything wrong with your translation. Report it. It's still beta.
"Do not you know any good actresess" I just mistyped the "s"-es but it should have been accepted!
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It should not. English is a little weird when it comes to contractions. In a question like this you can either start with "Don't you know...?" or "Do you not know...?", but not "Do not you know...?"
no waaaaaay :( I did not know that! I thought that always can be used" Do not, enstead of Don't... Whatever. Thank you
I use "Do not you know goof actresses?" Because the contraction Don't sometimes isn't recognized. .. but it was not accepted
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English grammar is weird. :)
When you have a negated yes-or-no question like that, the proper order is "do-subject-negation-verb". So you need to write "Do you not know good actresses?" Oddly enough, contractions are able to skip that subject, so you can also say "Don't you know good actresses?"
In conversation in English we do not ask if you know good actresses as much as do you know any or some good actresses.
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"You don't know good actresses?" is not a question but a statement and the "?" should not be there. If Duolingo wants question in English, as it is in Hungarian, should recommend "Don't you know...?"
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"You don't know good actresses?" is a declarative question. Since it's used to request information, it's a question, and the question mark is appropriate here.
