"Ana mănâncă un canar."
Translation:Anne eats a canary.
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That's easy... Because the chicken already crossed the road!-) Too bad for the canary...
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I thought the same thing. Unfortunately, as you probably now know, it turns out later that Ana is, in fact, a human. "Goodnight Duolingo."
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I was expecting it to be a cognate with the French canard "duck", but nope... apparently in Romania they eat canaries...
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Unfortunately, the Romanian word for duck (rață) comes from serbo-croatian roots! But don't give up, there are plenty of animal names that have common roots with the other Romance languages...
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Serbo-croatian? I am a native speaker, and duck is patka in serbo-croatian. Don't see how is that connected with rață....
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Well, the Romanian DEX refers to raca as a likely origin and so does the English wiktionary...
http://www.webdex.ro/online/dictionar/ra%C8%9B%C4%83
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ra%C8%9B%C4%83
Maybe you can tell us the difference between raca and patka.
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Raca is Slovenian. Didn't know that either. That is a probable South Slavic influence.
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Yes, I thought the same )))) and because Ana eats it )))
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In English now, a canard is a rumor, an unfounded story. Ana nu . . . .
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But that is a different bird. French canard is a duck, not a canary. Similar idea as quack.
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If you use a lot of garlic!
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Another word for hamster is 'hârciog', that is the word for hamster that Memrise taught me... I don't know which is more common.
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In Hungarian we use hörcsög (pronounced almost like hârciog) all the time. I cannot tell for 100% sure for Romanian but Wikipedia uses hârciog too so I would go with that.
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Poor canary! Well... this sounds funny for a canary like me (in Canary Islands the people is known as "canarios"). Btw... this romanian course is quite original in the vocabulary (the animals and food were very different compared to other Duo courses).
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You may not know, but is not the canary bird that gives its name to Canary Islands. When first explorers got there they found the islands full of dogs, so they name it so (dog=canis). There is some debate actually, some assume that the dogs could not get there, and the name in fact came from seals (Lat: canis marinus, sea dog).
And yes, romanian girls eat everything! Beware! :P
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You're right. The "can" from Canary islands is not from "canary" but "canis" (dog). In fact, the Canary flag has 2 dogs. But the demonym for canary people is called "canario", exactly like the yellow bird, that is also called canario in spanish. A canary woman would be a "canaria".
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As I said before after Duo I start doubting on Romanian kitchen :D
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Actually, Anna is a language teacher dedicated to Chomsky's approach, going to great lengths to make sure you'll really absorb that grammar from unusual combinations - Let's hope that canary will stick, too (with that form of eating in third person)
Of course THIS is the one that has comments on it and not "hamsterul vorbește romăna." Hm...
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I bet on duck but it was wrong :/ sadly no connection
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Unfortunately, the Romanian word for duck (rață) comes from serbo-croatian roots!
Edited: According to AmarPr, it is most likely Slovenian roots. So, let's make it Slavic roots!
Can happen in Romania people are starving especially in the winter. Maybe she didn't eat for a few days and no one in town would give her anything. So she went home and was looking at that bird like f### it Im going to make ciorba de perisoare from you my feathery friend.
I lived in Bucharest for 6 years and traveled through out the country. I never saw canary on any menu be it at a restaurant or home cooked.
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Să înțelegem că ai luat în serios propoziția...?!?
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‘Bones and all?’
‘Bones and all.’
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In English, there are jokes and expressions about "Cats eating canaries" that go back to 1800s. For example, see:
https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/cat-that-ate-the-canary/
What the author(s) of the sentence had in mind is for them to explain...
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Actually, Ana is a a owl... Maybe, Duo's girlfriend...
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I thought maybe it was carne (which I know isn't an animal). Humans do not eat canaries!
