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Topic: Spanish

"El eje"

Translation:The axis

5 years ago

18 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/Mijke
Mijke
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You give three translations: axis, axle and core. I use core and you say that that is wrong!. I think that the context of a sentence should decide the correct translation.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/SaulM
SaulMPlus
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I've found this a lot with duolingo. With other sentences, you can argue because of the context, but in a sentence as short as this, it really should accept core as well.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Pinnie
Pinnie
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ditto

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/cdntinpusher
cdntinpusher
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Ditto.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/carlbogdan
carlbogdan
  • 16

yup it´s weird as hell

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/shard
shard
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In the 1000 most used words in Spanish I doubt this appears

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/rocko2012
rocko2012
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In the top 50,000 most frequent Spanish words in movies subtitles "eje" is ranked 11452.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/rach3008
rach3008
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It would be nice if could learn the 11,000 more common words first. I think Duolingo is trying to teach me about cars - so far I have had the words petrol, petroleum, axle, machine, mechanism.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Mischel
Mischel
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hear hear

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/TilEulenspiegel
TilEulenspiegel
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Yeah, I wonder why the word for "axis" is really so important that it needs to be introduced at this stage.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Trudles.marshall
Trudles.marshall
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I have lived in Latin America for 7 months now, and have never needed to use this word!

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/miKel14
miKel14
  • 16

Ahhh,.... but when you DO need to use it....

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Roger_Burke
Roger_Burke
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I don't often speak Spanish, but when I do, I ask for tres ejes!

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/jhendrick103
jhendrick103
  • 21

Hilarious, Roger. You are the most interesting man in the world

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Roger_Burke
Roger_Burke
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Cuando yo hablo en Castillano, el Rey, Juan Carlos, se inclina hacia a mi.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/jfGor
jfGor
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jeje

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Talca
Talca
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Too obscure to be introduced at Level 10

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/rmcgwn
rmcgwn
  • 21

M husband is a mechanic so now I can show off my knowledge in spanish.

5 years ago
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