"A magyar sportoló a harmadik, a német pedig az ötödik."

Translation: The Hungarian athlete is the third, and the German is the fifth.

[JMaxGlobal]

"The Hungarian athlete is the third, the German in turn is the fifth" was [I think] incorrectly marked wrong as I purposefully included "in turn" - which is the meaning of "pedig".
A little frustrating; as a result I missed testing-out of the section.

OK - it's not catastrophic. I'll make a cup of tea, take a deep breath, and start all over! :)
~ Max

[carolgoslen]

I translated 'sportoló" as athlete and it was marked wrong in favor of "sportperson", which is not even a word in English. I translated "pedig" as "whereas" and that was marked correct. It seems this sentence uses athlete in the tranlation, but does not use whereas. I would say the best translation is
"The Hungarian athlete is third, whereas the German is fifth."

[GeordieTig]

Sportsperson is a closer translation for sportoló in British English as it covers participates of all sports whereas athlete is more correctly translated as atléták, somebody who takes part in athletics.

[deactivated user]

Dreadful translation : the definite article is not required here in British English

[SuedNym1]

The definite article is not needed. If they were the third or the fifth "something or other" then it would be.

[Joachim734726]

Since when is (whereas) not acceptable for pedig?

[11Mars43]

Same question. In a previous DL exercise, pedig was translated as whereas.

[kos479137]

I answered "... pedig a német...". What is the rule for placing "pedig"? I thought either would be accepted.

[Jhakey1]

Im getting so bored of typing everything and aurocorrect miscorrecting it and failing. What happened to all the fun?