"הברווזות שותות מיץ תפוחים."
Translation:The ducks are drinking apple juice.
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Orange juice is ALWAYS called מיץ תפוזים, no matter how many oranges are in there , or how many people are drinking it. This is guaranteed, as I come from a native Israeli family and have asked to make sure.
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You have probably figured this out by now, but yes, you would say "מיץ תפוזים" for "orange juice." :)
I said female ducks, and was marked wrong. Should it have been accepted?
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I had this problem too… And yet in another lesson, I FAILED to say female ducks when it was the word for female ducks, and THAT was wrong! Sometimes they want us to say male and female, sometimes they don't; they should accept it both ways, or at least be consistent!
You can all see for yourself with a translator, no need to wait. Grape juice: מיץ ענבים , strawberry cake: עוגת תותים , ... pineapple cookie: עוגיות אננס . Although, Banana bread: לחם בננה ... strawberry ice cream: גלידת תות (so ice cream is plural then when it's specific types?! Why isn't strawberries then plural?) Is it arbitrary? (singular: גלידה)
It's a lot more fluid than you might think. עוגת תות sounds to me as natural as עוגת תותים, and גלידת תותים is surely rare but doesn't sound very strange. I never heard of לחם בננה; I'd tend to say עוגת בננות but wouldn't blink to hear עוגת בננה. While מיץ תפוזים and מיץ תפוחים are dominant, I'm quite sure I've heard מיץ תפוז and מיץ תפוח, and hearing them today I'd think they're only a bit odd.
The only rigidity I find in a quick glance is to use ענבים - saying ענב (or the formal עינב) in any of these combinations would strike me as very odd. On the other hand, אננס and מנגו are usually אננס and מנגו even if you're talking about several whole items of fruit, let alone in מיץ or גלידה.
The female ducks are drinking apple juice should be accepted as a correct answer !
WHAT IS THE FEMALE FORM AND WAHT IS THE PLURAL FEMALE FORM OF הברווזות
They told us in another section there's no plural female word for ducks. What the heck?
So now if you want to specify that "ducks" refers to "female ducks" it is wrong according to dl !!! So my question goes for english speaking natives....Is there a specific word for "female duck" ? If so, it should be proposed by dl as a solution, because this is what is suggested when one hoovers above the famous "ducks". Or if not, according to the suggestion "female ducks" has to correct... I am a bit whimsical, am I not ?