"They are girls and they have a book."
Translation:Ele sunt fete și ele au o carte.
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I see how the sentence was intended to catch the learner on "they" meaning both ei and ele; however, I should say that any English speaker would only understand the reference being to girls alone here. Hence, the question is unfairly written, I think.
Agreed, "the girls" is clearly the antecedent of "they" in this sentence.
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I agree with you. For an English speaker, if this was put into two sentences it would make much more sense "Ele sunt fete." "Ei au o carte." It's like two different thoughts combined into one. Hence why it's confusing for them to be marked wrong when the sentence first starts off as they being referred to girls and then having the sentence be continued in the masculine form of 'ei.'
how can both "Ele sunt fete și ele au o carte" and "Ele sunt fete și ei au o carte" be correct surely one refers to male and the other to female?
would love an answer to this please, this is the second time I got this wrong on a multiple choice question
there are two groups. one group of boys and one group of girls. the boys have a book. so they (point at girls) are girls and they (point at boys) have a book. i agree it's daft, but i think it's normal in romanian
oh, its referring to two different groups, that makes sense but its not really intuitive thanks
"Ei" is masculine. When you are talking only about girls in this case then you use "ele". If there are boys and girls you default to "ei".
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Ei, sunt masculini, {[Ei sunt copii și (ei) au o carte]. [They are boys and they have a book]]
Ele, sunt feminine, {[Ele sunt fete și (ele) au o carte]. [They are girls and they have a book]] ele, it's feminine, they're girls
The way it was explained to me is that "iar" only works in certain contexts. It more comparative than inclusive. So in this sentence it would be like saying "They are girls but also they have a book." Which doesn't make very much sense.
Normally we say/ Ele sunt fete şi ele au o carte, because here we have two girls no boys
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Normally we use the pronoun that matches who we're talking about. Since there is no context to tell that we're only talking about girls, the ones who have the book could be boys.
