"Barua pepe kutoka nyumbani"
Translation:E-mails from home
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Is there anything in the sentence to suggest plurality? Why would "An e-mail from home" be wrong?
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!
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.
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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.)
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.
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!"
