"זה פרי?"
Translation:Is this a fruit?
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Why is it that two years after the sentence was posted, nobody else has thought of asking about whether "Is this a piece of fruit" should be accepted? Am I the only one who uses "fruit" as a noncountable noun virtually all the time? :O
Because many hebrew learners are deprogramed themselves out of english language at this point :D
I did, after first considering "a fruit" because that is the lesson, but decided to go with "a piece of fruit"..... and duo lingo said it was wrong. So I sacrificed a heart for honour. :)
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yes, this is how I answered and it was marked correct. I do not understand why I was not told I have a typo.
Ki biyológit ‘agvanyá mugdéret—
Because biologically a tomato is defined as a—
Al tatxíl!
Don’t start!
So zei means both "this" and "that". Is there no distinction between these words in Hebrew?
Many languages, including Hebrew, don't distinguish between near and far demonstratives, and some have more than two distinctions.
- Hebrew: no distinction
- English: near/far (this/that)
- Sinhala: near/far within sight/far out of sight
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Don't forget Spanish:
Esto, esta, estos, estas (near)
Eso, esa, esos, esas (far)
Aquello, aquella, aquellos, aquellas (very far)
:)
Or Japanese: kono, this
sono, that
ano, that one farther away than sono.
would it be correct to use this sentence asking if they are referring to a particular fruit?
I'm not sure I understood what you're asking.
if the question is whether "זה פרי?" is correct when we're talking about a particular fruit, it's correct (for instance, if you ask your friend to bring home any fruit she wants, and she brings a weird fruit, Rambutan for example, and you ask here - "is it a fruit?")
Duo usually ignores all punctuation, so their computer sees your sentence as a statement rather than a question. Starting your sentence with “Is” is the only way to go.
"This fruit?" (as in "this fruit and not the other fruit") was not an accepted translation for me. Would this not be a good translation?
No, it’s not a good translation, because our target sentence means “Is this object a fruit?” whereas your translation means “’This fruit and not the other fruit?”