"דג בא."

Translation: A fish is coming.

[actua11y]

beware the all powerful fish

[Walter375725]

I would say that this fish is definitely A FOOD, it is a "food" lesson,
not "animal" lesson. So, it has to be without the article.
Bon appetit!

[DanFendel]

I got this as a spoken sentence to translate. Other than trying to make more sense, is there any way to know that this was not דג בה, "a fish is in it"?

[ran6996]

Not really.. And anyway, דג בה actually wouldn't make any sense as standalone sentence and I don't believe it would ever appear like that in Duolingo

[nateVONgreat]

It makes sense as a sentence, but is very specific and weird setting. @ran6996 is correct, it probably wouldnt appear on Duo.

Maybe in a horror film, or a film about whales. lol.

[MorlandLaura]

Except that whales aren't fish! :-)

[Kirk419749]

I agree with the commenter several below. Fish is coming is correct if used in terms of food. Since so many of the comments are food related (i.e. meat and cheese, beef, wine, etc.) this should be a proper solution and perhaps the only correct solution, but certainly not incorrect.

[akebonochan]

In that sentence and lot of others an indefinite article can pop up absolutely randomly. Sometimes you mark it as a mistake. In next exercise, when you translating the sentence as it was suggested previously by your system, you also mark it as a mistake, but now you suggest that the first suggestion, that wasn't count is right!

[jg9000]

The indefinite article doesn't "pop up randomly". It is required because "Fish is coming" is not a valid English sentence. Hebrew doesn't have an indefinite article so you have to add it where needed when translating to English.

[mtthwf]

Why can't it be "Fish (as in the food) is coming?" That's a valid English sentence.

[Yakuul]

In that sense yes, of course.

[MorlandLaura]

If you're in a restaurant waiting for your food, and you see the waiter coming towards you with a plate, you'd say The fish is coming. I can't think of a situation where "Fish is coming" makes sense in English, unless "Fish" is somebody's name (or nickname).

(I happened to have been born in a hospital named after a man named "Bert Fish," and so it is a family name in English.)

[charswell]

I've never seen a fish come

[roderickbl]

Go watch the discovery channel!

[danny912421]

dag ba.

[Berenyu]

ד ג ב א, מגניב!

[nateVONgreat]

if you add an "and" and the definite article its even cooler.

("and the fish is coming")

ו ה ד ג ב א

[hadassa]

Couldn't saying דג also mean fish, not just a fish

[VidAdler]

first 4 letters of the alphabet - in reverse :)

[DavidRapha17]

I like this phrase because it has 4 letters in order: aleph, bet, gimel, dalet

[belridetulo]

דג זהב!

[cVC9doiH]

ברוך הבא

[DavidRapha17]

i know