"El eje"

Translation: The axis

[Mijke]

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.

[SaulM]

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.

[Pinnie]

ditto

[cdntinpusher]

Ditto.

[carlbogdan]

yup it´s weird as hell

[shard]

In the 1000 most used words in Spanish I doubt this appears

[rocko2012]

In the top 50,000 most frequent Spanish words in movies subtitles "eje" is ranked 11452.

[rach3008]

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.

[Mischel]

hear hear

[TilEulenspiegel]

Yeah, I wonder why the word for "axis" is really so important that it needs to be introduced at this stage.

[Trudles.marshall]

I have lived in Latin America for 7 months now, and have never needed to use this word!

[miKel14]

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

[Roger_Burke]

I don't often speak Spanish, but when I do, I ask for tres ejes!

[jhendrick103]

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

[Roger_Burke]

Cuando yo hablo en Castillano, el Rey, Juan Carlos, se inclina hacia a mi.

[jfGor]

jeje

[Talca]

Too obscure to be introduced at Level 10

[rmcgwn]

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