"I use the train."
Translation:電車を使います。
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「電」is the Kanji for electricity. The word for electricity is 「電気」or "Denki" and so electric car is 「電気自動車」"Denki jidousha" or "Electric automobile"
How the hell is the question to the answer posted as answer to the question?
there are more terms depending on what you are looking for。
列車「れっ・しゃ」I think is more like "railway train", sometimes used as a general term、
汽車「き・しゃ」if you are looking for steam-based locomotives、
新幹線【しん・かん・せん】for the bullet train that connects with Tokyo、
地下鉄【ち・か・てつ】or メトロ for "subway".
Duo marked のり wrong for me. I'm not entirely sure what the difference is.
乗る is the better of both options in my opinion. I don't hear 使う very often by natives tbh so I don't think that duo should force us to use words that sound very "外人"
what about 用る? having so many words for 'use', there has to be some usage difference between them....how do you use 'use'? lol
"Use" is universal for anything. Use a chair use a pencil use a car use a lamp etc
You use wo for direct objects. Ni is used for location. In this case, tsukaimasu is the verb so you are "using the train". In other cases such as norimasu, you are riding "on" the train, so you use ni. Ha/wa is typically used for the subject. Watashi wa densha ni norimasu, for example.
車 (しゃ, as a suffix) is more "vehicle" than car, hence 自転車, 電車, etc. The more specific word for "car" is 自動車（じどうしゃ）, so electric car is 電気自動車（でんきじどうしゃ）but it's a bit long-winded and I imagine "EV" is used more casually.
Don't bother they don't always give you the audio for all the kanji. Especially if there is an alternative hiragana option or it is a kanji they have already drilled in practice many times but sometimes they make a small error here or there. Just use your time to keep studying. And practice your kanji like crazy. Repetition is the key.
Why in this sentence do we need to use を but in the sentence 'I ride a car' (車にのります) we don't? What's the grammatical difference?
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It depends on the verb.
乗る is 自動詞 (self+verb = verb that acts on the doer himself, intransitive verb); the subject (marked with が) is what does the action of riding/getting in the vehicle; the particle に tags the "aim/purpose" of the verb, in this case the vehicle you get into/the animal you mount.
私は馬に乗ります = I-[subject] / horse-[aim] / ride-[polite sufix] = I ride/will ride a horse.
使う is a 他動詞 (someother+verb = verb that acts on something, transitive verb), the subject doing the using is of course still marked with が, but the thing beign used is marked with を
私が箸を使います = I-[subject] / chopstick-[object] / use-[polite sufix] = I use/will use chopsticks.
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While で can be used with a lot of verbs to tell the mean/manner/way of doing the action; here 使う means "to use", and what is used is the direct object (を), not extra information but the core of the purpose of that verb.
箸で食べる = I eat with chopsticks.
箸を使う = I use chopsticks.
で can be used with つかう for the place where the action occurs (which is another usage of で):
学校で箸を使う = I use chopsticks at school
The question doesn't specify whether is it an electric train 電車 or just trains, 列車. I wonder if the mistake was on me.
No, the verb in it's infinitive form is つかう. To make polite form, remove the う and add います = つかいます。
使い(つかい) means "to use" while 乗りmeans "to ride". 使い also uses the grammar particle "を" while the other uses に
The じしょーけい is 使う. In ます form it becomes 使います
つかい has the following definitions
Noun 1. errand; mission; going as envoy 2. messenger; bearer; errand boy; errand girl 3. familiar spirit Noun - used as a suffix, Noun - used as a prefix 4. use; usage; user; trainer; tamer; charmer