"Bjørnen har taget sin medicin i morgen aften."

Translation: The bear will have taken its medicine tomorrow evening.

[nfolkert]

why not "his medicine"?

[epac-mcl]

It is normal to use "his" and "her" in respect to people, and "its" in respect to animals.

[rhhpk]

It does get a bit confusing though when the animals read newspapers and generally behave like humans as they do in the Danish duolingo.
These human-like bears really shouldn't be referred to as "it", but as "he" and "she".

[epac-mcl]

Good point :-)

[nfolkert]

it's fine in english to refer to animals by their gender, or even by a default gender, or to use the neuter. though now i don't remember how this question was posed in the lesson, so that may or may not be applicable.

[Andreas-CPH]

I support the idea to accept "his".

[frankenwer]

Is there nodifference berween "has taken" and "will have taken"? Both " har taget "??

[Ida401172]

This sentence makes no sense, in danish you would say "bjørnen tager sin medicin i morgen" and not "bjørnen har taget sin medicin i morgen" saying that sounds so wrong and makes no sence. You can't talk past and future in the same sentence, just saying.

[ozwordnerd]

Unlike other languages, in English we do use gender when referring to animals. Nothing to do with anthropomorphising - it's just acknowledgement of gender

[PushythePirate1]

'his' should be accepted.

[Nordeuropa]

That sentence does not exist, how dare you teach stupidities like this