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"The child has life" is acceptable as a translation in English. "The child has a life" has a different meaning. The first is like saying "The child is lively" the second is like saying "The kid doesnt sit around playing pokemon all day, he has a life "
In greek too, I think it is not the best way to learn greek, but is free, and better than other applications.
I pay for Rosetta Stone, and it is worth it to me. Duolingo is basically ruining my Greek learning. Honestly. The Spanish is good though. The Greek is poor.
Think of it as "the kid is lively". People who are energetic have "a lot of life" in them
It’s a stupid translation, I mean it is literal but yeah, what the heck. In Greek, it’s a common complement to say someone is lively, meaning a fun personality. The way you say it in Greek is έχουν ζωή, which literally translates as they have life, but if you were translating a Greek novel into English you’d never write that, you’d say they were fun, boisterous etc, anything but ‘they have life’!
The child has life is a ridiculous literal translation. The kid is full of life sounds better, though it’s not really something you say in English.
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I wrote: The child has a life, which is also the correct answer. But my correct The child was underlined and marked as wrong. It is not possible to report it.
Look at the top of this page where you will see the correct translation....
"Το παιδί έχει ζωή" Translation: The child has a life.
So, there is no way we can understand what you are referring to. If "The child was underlined and marked as wrong." that means it was wrong and it should have shown you the correct sentence.
Why couldn't you report it?
