"Acho que vou tirar férias esta semana."

Translation: I think I am going to take a vacation this week.

[devonreed]

The translations seem to have a constant problem with not recognizing "I think that" as the equivalent to "I think".

[Lunga311411]

Think it's one of the case where words can be omitted from an English sentence, like I have in this sentence. Seldom marks my sentences wrong when I add in sentences.

[daniellevz]

why is 'holiday' not accepted?

[erudis]

I'm not a native speaker, but I don't think you can take holidays from work, only vacations.

[Fintan]

In British English, the word "vacation" is rarely used - "holiday" or "holidays" are much more frequent.

[Duo2012]

It is allowed as an answer now.
As Fintan says, it is used all the time in the UK.

[NikkiBishop1]

It didn't allow me to use 'holiday' in the singular to test out :(

[reno300]

I guess that should be correct, unless duo has holiday programmed in the singular form as 'feriado'.

[aniger]

One can take holidays or a vacation in North America.

[Ygorwells]

Why is the 'a' required? 'I think I am going to take vacation this week' means the same thing.

[Afoita]

what was wrong with this answer? "acho que vou chegar férias esta semana"

[reno300]

Chegar means to arrive.

[pandrewhk]

How about "take this week off"?

[Sadie954521]

I think I'll take this week off?
I feel like this should be accepted