"They eat the rice and drink the water."

Translation: Ele mănâncă orezul și ele beau apa.

[paul448945]

If 'ele' is feminine and 'ei' is masculine, what do you say if there is a group of people, with men and women ?

[Jemmaanne]

I think that is neutral and so would use the masculine ei

[Kangaroo_Joey]

I'm confused, why is it ele and not ei?

[Mejjnor]

It is actually either: English does not distinguish between the masculine "they" and the feminine one. Romanian does.

[Materhorn]

Why is it not "beau apala" for "drink the water"?

[hannie125]

'water' is apă and 'the water' is apa

[_ste.funny_]

X'D they eat the rice and drink the boy

[R.White]

Good luck eating the newspaper. The word is difficult to remember for me. I imagine the Slovak town of Ziar nad Hronom making it into the international news

[Kacey281200]

Isnt "ele" just the feminine version of "they"?

[BogdanZegh]

Yes, it is.

[Bullchunk]

Why is drink the water "they drink the water"?

[Mat607064]

Why is it wrong? Can't 'beau' without a pronoun mean 'they drink'?

[BogdanZegh]

Yes, when you can infer the pronoun from the context, you can use only the verb. But keep in mind that "beau" is also the person I singural: "Eu beau" (I drink)

[1queenofclubs]

ok. this helped me that "beau" is used with "eu" and also "ele/ei". i had forgotten the conjugation.

[nodaicugex]

only when you say 'I drink' - eu beau, you can say BEAU. if you want to say 'they drink' you ll have to say 'ei beau'

[VeronikaCh333816]

I think it's a program mistake. Reported it...

[Jemmaanne]

Don't quote me on that though, I've just started learning.
:)

[nodaicugex]

yeah thats correct

[DualSquishums]

Why does it keep telling me to "pay attention to the accents" even though i put the accent in every time :|

[nodaicugex]

maybe cause of the 'ş' . you probably used that and you ll have to use 'ș'

[Oliverloss]

Why does it say I hav a typo on my answer when they as neautral is ei because it is masculine, it says my typo is that I didn't write ele but they don't reffer to girls. I am guessing they mean there is an alternative answer?

[nodaicugex]

yeah well theres no way to tell if THEY is ei or ele, thats a thing duolingo has to sort out

[robg68]

How would one know when to use ele or ei? What in that sentence determines it is ele?

[Andrei926539]

Nothing. We don't know the gender. So both should be accepted.

[nodaicugex]

yeah. both 'should' be accepted..

[lucsan78]

Please don't deal with romanian translators if they are not professionals!The mistake they done is very unpleasant .So ,if in English they is written same way for both genders ,on plural,in romanian "they " is written differently ragarding the gender you want to use feminine or masculine :feminine =ele,masculine =ei

[Swohem]

You said papa which means dad, You insane!

[Barabarutxi]

It might be correct if you use Ei or Ele because in English "they" Has no gender and nothing in the sentence seems like is fem.

[AnnaPustil]

There is no indication of gender in the sentence