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- "Please give me a thick pen."
"Please give me a thick pen."
Translation:太いペンをください。
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太い applies to thick, round object; 厚い to thick flat objects.
Duolingo apparently doesn't accept the kanji when writing the sentence. That makes it harder to practice. I don't mind them not requiring it but they ought to accept it...
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What Diamantis8 meant is that there is no word bubble for the word 'give' in the word bubbles version of the exercise. Reported.
- 1190
That would be "please give (someone who is not me) a thick pen."
下さる (kudasaru) - give me
あげる (ageru) - give
Don't worry, I can think of at least four other verbs meaning "give" if you're finding this confusing.
- 1190
[kanji] 太いペンを下さい。
[kana] ふといペンをください。
[romaji] Futoi pen o kudasai.
*Note that while 下さい should grammatically be written in kanji for this sentence, many native speakers would just write it in kana.
- 1190
As EquanimousLingo's comment at the top says, "futoi" is for thick, round objects, while "atsui" is for thick, flat objects.
Just for clarification, since this is in reference to a "pen" does 太い only mean "thick" in a literal sense (i.e. the body of the pen (the stick part) is not thin) or does it also mean a pen that marks a wide line (i.e. a "bold" pen)?
- 1190
I think it would generally be interpreted as the body of the pen itself is thick. When a pen has a bold tip, I see it labeled as 太字 (futoji, bold/thick characters), clarifying that the characters it writes are thick. The word for a pen tip/nib is ペン先, so ペン先が太い could also be used to specify that it is bold/thick-tipped pen.
