"Το φόρεμα των κοριτσιών"

Translation: The girls' dress

[Roger628452]

The English answer needs an apostrophe, as in the way it is written here, otherwise it is incorrect

[Lagartija144]

I noticed that the apostrophe was missing, so I went to keyboard mode and answered .
It was marked as incorrect.

[Marva441926]

I, too, have had trouble with some of the tile-choice questions. When the possessor is plural, there are no tiles with apostrophes, and we aren't given the correct tiles for the "the x of the y" construction.

[I.Schmidt1]

the dress of the girls was given wrong

[lcates55]

Oddly, this construction had been accepted all along.

[Aurel313251]

It is still marked wrong...

[Dimitra956826]

It seems like there was a small typo in the incubator. It's been fixed, thank you for the comment!

[BillDe]

Still not fixed. At least on my android.

[alepouditsa_]

"The dress of the girls" is accepted (05/03/2022)

[yuriSVB]

Why not 'The dress of the girl?'

[Theo_Matrakas]

των κοριτσιών is genitive plural. The correct translation is The dress of the girls,
which is added in the Incubator :)

The dress of the girl = το φόρεμα [του κοριτσιού/της κοπέλας]

[DoctorFateMX]

That option was not given by the available tiles.

[jaye16]

No, it was not available in the tiles because those exercises only have the main translation ....which you can see at the top of this page. Those tiles are there...I checked.

[Uncle_Mixi]

The author assumes common appreciation for his engaged, indeed occasionally very personal logics. One must live with that.

[SaeedSamiee]

I wonder if it means that "A dress that specially is designated for girls (any girl)"
such as what is in a department store or it means "The dress that is owned by the specified girls."

[G.Georgopoulos]

It's basically the latter. The former would be something like "Φορέματα κοριτσιών, which makes sense whatsoever xD

[Anna483447]

Lets hope they don't fall out over who will wear it!

[Sunnysouthlady]

The dress of the girls should be accepted as correct answer too.

[MeganLuck1]

Wouldn't the word dress be plural? The girls's dresses? They don't all share one dress do they?

[jaye16]

The word "dress"= "φόρεμα" is singular. What they do with the dress is not for us to determine. Don't search for logic.

[MeganLuck1]

Shouldn't it be dresses? They don't all share the one dress. so if it is girls' and not girl's the dress should be plural.

[Marva441926]

One dress can certainly be shared by more than one girl. Especially, but not necessarily, if they are sisters.

I honestly do not understand why this is such a problem.

[DoctorFateMX]

It's one dress.
Remember, it's about the grammar, not the plausibility of the scenario.

[WilmaCaxton]

And the scenario is very plausible - my daughter and her friends used to share party dresses as they couldn't possibly wear the same dress for every party and couldn't afford to buy a new dress each time.

[jaye16]

Not only plausible but factual. When I was in HS my friend and I pooled our allowances and bought a skirt that neither of us could have afforded individually. Thanks for the memories. :)

[jaye16]

Thanks, DoctorFateMX your reply is perfect.

[jaye16]

The sentence clearly says:The girls--> plural and "dress"-->singular.

These are not stories we are writing but sentences to recognize the various features of vocabulary and grammar.

Here it was necessary to see what was singular and what was plural. And if it was a surprise then all the better to learn it and be careful.

[alepouditsa_]

There's even a movie! The sisterhood of the traveling pants. Four friends and one pair of trousers!