"Can you hear this horse?"

Translation: Słyszysz tego konia?

[Pete357534]

Where does "can" come in in the English translation? Should this be "Do you hear this horse?"?

[immery]

other way round it is a valid translation. But when you hear a horse in a distance , English speaking person will ask "Can you hear this horse?" and a Polish person will ask "Słyszysz tego konia?"

[bookrabbit]

I would use do more often than can in that context (in the distance not in a distance) And I would use that not this. Do you hear that horse. This horse implies it is close.

[immery]

You have a different distinction between "this and that " than we have between "ten" and "tamten", which made me use a wrong example.

I'd say we usually translate English "can you see?" "can you hear" to czy widzisz? czy słyszysz ?

Unless it is a less polite form of "could you please see"

[bookrabbit]

Just as long as you don't insist on the can in the English sentence, as do is just as common and the meaning is the same.

[Jellei]

"Do" is of course accepted in the PL->ENG version of this exercise.

There's no way to change the 'original sentence' that is shown for ENG->PL exercise when the course is already created.