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- "じてん車にのります。"
"じてん車にのります。"
Translation:I ride a bicycle.
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I think that's a fair point, it's uncommon. This thread on wordreference points out that when you give someone a ride, the rider might say "I rode on his bike."
I'm mulling the Japanese over in my head, and I think the speaker is the one operating the bike. If they were getting a ride, 乗せる (noseru) would more likely be used.
Why isn't "I ride bikes" accepted as a correct answer? I thought plural and singular nouns were the same.
Breakdown 自転車 (じてんしゃ) - Bike に - Direction marker 乗る - To take Lit Bike (direction marker) take Real I ride (take) the bike/bikes.
Wouldnt で be a better particle here? に should be used when a (starting/endi g) location is mentioned.
"I take a bike" should be accepted, as "to take [a type of transport]" is a standard phrasing in English for "to (use, ride, etc.)" that type of transport.
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Can somebody explain why "I go by bike" is not accepted? English is not my first language and I don't see much difference to "I ride a bike".
"I go by bike" means you are going somewhere by bike. You have a destination. In Japanese you can say 自転車で行きます (jitensha de ikimasu).
If you say "I ride a bike", you are describing an activity that you do. There is no destination.
A Japanese child learns the kanji 車 in the first grade, so they would likely write it that way. They learn 自 in the second grade, so then they can write 自てん車. They learn 転 in the third grade, so then they can finally write 自転車. You write the kanji you know.
Isn't 乗ります to get on? I tried I take the bike and they didn't accept it :( But they didn't accept I get on the bus on another exercise but accepted I take the bus?
