"We decrease the number of animals."

Translation: Noi scădem numărul de animale.

[pablopublico]

De ce "de animale" și nu "animalelor"? Mulțumesc mult.

[deactivated user]

„Animalelor” - animals, „de animale” - of animals.

[AndrewLau18]

scadem and reducem should be interchangeable, like in English, I decrease or I reduce the number of animals, means the same thing
So Noi reducem numarul de animale should be accepted.

[Adi889300]

Yep! You are right! Same happened to me

[Tomas.Janik]

What is wrong with "Noi scădem cantitatea de animale." here? It was not accepted.

[deactivated user]

I think "scădem cantitatea" means you subtract the quantity of the animals. So it's technically not wrong, but the words don't really match up.

[Tomas.Janik]

Well, if you translate it as "subtract" then it doesn't. Translating it as "decreasing the amount/quantity", it sounds ok to me. So am I missing something?

[deactivated user]

Yes, a letter. I believe it's spelled 'decreasing'. The direct correct translation to the sentence means "We subtract the number of animals." 'Scădem' means 'we subtract', but Duolingo wants us to say it as 'decrease' because it's more colloquial in English.

[Tomas.Janik]

This discussion was about unaccepted traslation from english to romanian, see the root post. I fixed the typo, but that is not the point here.

[Silviu1402]

"Noi micșorăm numărul de animale" is not correct?

[ElviraMurz]

Scadem sau micsoram e acelasi lucru

[JOKOJOKO83]

Would it be possible to use the verb "a coborî" instead?

[Jason875029]

No, a coborî means to descend