"Barua pepe kutoka nyumbani"

Translation: E-mails from home

[willynam]

Is there anything in the sentence to suggest plurality? Why would "An e-mail from home" be wrong?

[killearn]

An email from home should also be accepted.

[Martin633120]

Both singular and plural forms of "e-mail" are accepted by DL. You just need to be sure you don't try to make a complete sentence out of "Barua pepe kutoka nyumbani." It's a phrase, not a sentence. It would be helpful of DL not to start with an upper case letter when they're giving us a fragment of a sentence instead of a complete sentence!

[Renata725212]

Nothing describes what the form it is. This is only Duolingo's desire. The same like the meaning of " barua" or " barua pepe" which basicly means - letter /s because it has no plural form.

[DeLogosarda]

Why does this phrase make sense? What's with the verb form?

[Catriona28475]

"kutoka" means "from" here. It is not being used as a verb in the infinitve.

[SmartinTZ]

Why is this even in the lesson on questions?

[Catriona28475]

It happens several times in this course. Just an oversight, I think. (Not a question, or it's a bad example of a question and the question mark is missing.)

[PriyavShah1]

Could this also be translated to be - "Emails that are from home" or "emails that have come from home" or "emails that have been sent from home"?
This sentence confuses me.

[ElizabethF711355]

These all mean basically the same thing, but in English or is more common just to say "emails from home." For example, one would say, "Yay! I got emails from home!" And not "Yay! I got emails that are from home!"

[Noah459171]

Why is "email comes from home" marked wrong?