"Aceste fructe sunt pentru oricine le vrea."

Translation:These fruits are for anyone who wants them.

January 19, 2017

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/PaulMinden

At this level the program is rejecting SO many right answers that it's getting hard to stick with it. "these fruits are for whoever wants them" was "wrong" -- so at this point, I'm committing so much memory to learning what precise phrasing use in English that I'm learning less Romanian. Beta, I know, but...


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/potestasity

I feel you. When I completed my tree, I tried to do it as fast as possible by testing out everything. It was extremely hard, because I only had three hearts and I had to guess the most probable translation that is accepted. Gave up and saved the more complicated sentences in a text file.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/PaulMinden

It's an interesting sort of cross-linguistic meta-exercise, where you're guessing how an academically-minded Romanian is going to translate idiomatic Romanian into English. Doing my best. :)


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/cosmo-pedant

Is PaulMinden wondering why the natural English translation of "This fruit . . . ." is not accepted?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Chris265302

This fruit is for anyone who wants it. Fruit is usually a collective noun and is used in the singular. There are exceptions but these usually appear in a poetic or biblical type of context. The fruits of their labours ..... Fruits of the forest etc


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Pop60

YES. I wouldn't mark the plural wrong, but in English the singular collective is correct.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/skeletizzle

Does it sound natural not to say ”oricine ce le vrea” or ”oricine că le vrea”? I was sure i would have to include something between oricine and le vrea


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Skkarlett7

No, you should not include anything there. It sounds weird with "ce" or "că" ;) It doesn't sounds good at all


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/LieslWickl

I really do not like it when it corrects my English. If I have a typo, then it should be accepted.

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