"הילדות הולכות לידה."
Translation:The girls are walking next to her.
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This was WAYYYY too quick to be able to hear... I still can't hear it even with knowing what it says.
Same comment as others, way too fast to be understandable at this stage of learning, sounds more like the word for vegetables (ירחות) than to walk הולך
A question for all : If "ילדים " applies to both boys or children, why can't " ילדות " also mean girls or children? I am raising this question, since this answer was treated as an error !
This is a case of a generic masculine, where the simple form or unmarked form of the noun denotes either both genders at the same time OR specifically only a male, but the marked form, where a suffix is added (ילד-ה), exclusively marks females.
This speaker always seems to add extra syllables. There is a sound between the הילדות and הולכות.
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I wrote "the girls are walking by her side" and was marked wrong. The phrase I used is the same as "walking next to her." I reported it.
Morfix explains: ליד means "by, near, at, beside, next to" https://www.morfix.co.il/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93
"By one's side" and "beside one" are pretty much the same thing. In this case, "by her side" and "beside her."
Many thanks in advance, Duo Hebrew Team!
@Keismer Your ear is good. Since the initial h is often dropped by the Duolingo speakers, I would expect this to sound like Ha-yelado-tolkhot...but I also hear yelado-tolokhot. Maybe the extra o sound is added for ease of pronunciation.
Well, in my ears רַע sounds like malicious or evil. I would use גָּרוּעַ to express being bad at something. You need שֶׁ־ּ for an object clause: זֶה מַה שֶּׁאֲנִי שׁוֹמֵעַ.
No, this is an English synonym, although לְצַד might be the more literal translation (צַד side), I do not see this as a real difference.
“beside her” is a synonym of “next to her” in English, so I think it should be accepted, but it’s not as common as next to, so maybe it didn’t occur to the DL team to add it.
