"三時間まちました。"

Translation: I waited for three hours.

[kelsi602]

Welcome to Tokyo Disneyland. You've been warned ;-)

[ahANpg]

Or at the Tsukiji sushi shops

[darthoctopus]

三時間待ちました

[Pikachu025]

The dog hat shop is always crowded you know... :/

[_jclipse]

Maybe it's because he died ):

[Jinkukdal11]

But he was dead already...

[SevenAmber77]

hhhhhhʘᴗʘ

[LunaAVL]

When I read this, why do I imagine Nicholas Cage screaming this at someone?

[joaquintoral]

Open google translate to get close to accurate translation. Seems like hovering on some of the words will give you cancer.

[elizadeux]

Google translate is often not reliable either.

[shafimukhtar]

"You better have a good excuse", gnarled the angry girlfriend.

[Blackdeadlywest]

まちました isn't translated properly

[Daesastrous]

まち got translated to "Town," which was stupid

[KherryKandy]

This is why duolingo should try to introduce more kanji. It would make stuff like this much easier!

[elizadeux]

まち does mean town in some contexts. The hints just list the possibilities for that word regardless of context. It doesn't mean that everyone of the hints listed is appropriate for that particular Duolingo sentence. In this sentence, I could tell that まち wasn't a noun here because it was clearly part of the verb.

[mrvolans]

Me: Wait ten minutes.

Duo: I waited for three hours!

I'm so sorry!

[Boringjorn]

その後、滝に入るのができる。

[Lloyd76445]

And you still didn't show up!

[JornVernee]

Shouldn't this use 待ちました ?

[V2Blast]

That is the kanji for the word, yes.

[Rso17]

Is 持ちる used for holding and waiting? Like: you're 'holding' me up?

[TallesMiranda]

待 is the kanji for "to wait", as in 待つ (matsu). "to hold" is 持つ (motsu). if you pay close attention to the left side of each kanji, you will notice the kanji　持つ's radical for hand (扌). I don't know much about radicals, but the kanji for hand (手) is pretty easy to remember and so is its radical (which helps a lot in this case). Not sure if that answers your question though e.e

[viegasrex]

Not really. It's a different verb. Though the kanji is a bit alike

[TchePB]

Pobre soldado levou um pé na bunda

[HaruKira]

Why is the correct translation in simple past instead of present perfect? As far as I know, both translations should be accepted since Japanese does not differentiate both tenses, unless the context points which one is best to use.

[celcius_01]

Uh-oh somebody's in trouble.

[Lloyd76445]

rip

[TomTheMystik]

... because my girlfriend hates being interrupted mid sentence