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"Я не знаю, что мама приготовит завтра на обед."
Translation:I don't know what mom will cook tomorrow for lunch.
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OK. Thank you! These variants are rarely accepted by Duolingo, but now I know. Спасбо большое!
I mistook что to mean "that" ("i don't know , that mom will make for lunch tomorrow ", which i know makes no sense). How does one distinguish between "what" and "that" in such a sentence. Or am i just being dumb? :)
I think it is partially a situational difference. I made the same mistake while reading this too, but I believe in order to make the sentence into "i don't know , that mom will make lunch for tomorrow" it would probably have to be "i don't know , if mom will make lunch for tomorrow". "If" would fit the sentence better than "that". example “I wonder THAT this is wrong” & "I wonder IF this is wrong”. Don't worry many English speakers make this mistake, even me lol. good luck :)
I don't know what mom will cook for lunch tomorrow? This was rejected - why?
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It was rejected today, 2020.12.04. This is certainly a more natural and common formulation than the one Duolingo gives.
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I don't know if Duo accepts "I don't know what Mom is cooking tomorrow for lunch", but that form is what Duo discusses in the tips and notes: English using a present progressive tense to look into the future. A more accurate English statement is "what Mom will cook/will be cooking tomorrow", but "is cooking tomorrow" would definitely be heard often enough in American English to make it a correct usage.
it's also present in standard British english, it is definitely correct grammatically
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I believe it's because adverbs usually are placed close to the verb and are not separate by other words as in your sentence.
I also believe that adverbs usually go before the verb, but that's obviously not the case here.
I think it's на + accusative here, because на обеде would mean literally "on (top of) the lunch".
