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"そらに何がとんでいますか？"
Translation:What is flying in the sky?
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I was gonna write ‘孫悟空’...
Also, the ‘それは’ is redundant, and in informal speech that would be ‘だ’ rather than ‘です’.
Then the hat selling dog's saga has already two timelines: one in which it dies after falling from the tree, and another in which it was a super hero O.o
"What is flying through the sky?" is not accepted? My first language is not english so I may have that wrong, does anybody know why?
That would probably be more accurately written as それを飛んでいるのは、なんですか。 を indicates through
Its not crossing the sky, its just inside the sky. So its better to use"in" then 'through'
This is where this app confuses me. Earlier it uaed the same phrase to describe birds flying "through" the sky, but now through is wrong and they want you to write "in"
It's the övönő who has escaped frim the Duo Hungarian course and has flown over to this one m
Why is it ni instead of wo? In a previous lesson about birds flying in the sky, the sky used the wo particle.
Good question. My understanding is that に is used when you're pointing out a specific location. Perhaps in the previous sentence you were talking about, を might have been used because sky was a more general area back then. を is after all, an Object Marker. So if the birds are interacting with the sky in general, I suppose を could be used. However, に is used in this sentence because they're asking a a very specific thing at a very specific place in the sky. Almost pointing at it. At least that's my understanding of it. Don't let it bother you if you don't like it. I myself am assuming things here, to be honest.
If my memory serves me right, when something is moving on/through something else, "wo" should be used as particle. As in "sora wo nani ga tondeimasu ka?"
I picked "what is flying up in the sky" and it wasnt accepted. I don't see this as wrong though. The sky is up from the ground...
At first I thought this said: "Is anything flying in the sky?" How would I say that?
This is my first time posting. Hopefully I get a notification or something if somebody answers.
Sorry, I should have kept the original word order: 空に何かが飛んでいますか。The key here is 何か which means something/anything.
Because an earlier discussion indicated that を was used with とぶ, I was expecting this to be 何を. Feeling confused...
