"I use the train."

Translation: 電車を使います。

[Stormrider--]

「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"

[DrikusRoor]

How do/will they call actual electric cars?

[ElGringo207186]

How the hell is the question to the answer posted as answer to the question?

[Idanbd]

Perhaps original comment was edited?

[komi-shouko]

Does Japan have non electric trains?

[TyrantRC]

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".

[JohnPMChappell]

電車を使います。

[sayoko148927]

So you can use either つかい or のり to say what you use for transportation?

[CJCatStack]

Duo marked のり wrong for me. I'm not entirely sure what the difference is.

[JaysonKost]

のり is "ride" while つかい is "use" as far as I can tell

[Soy_Jaguar]

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"

[SpencerBry9]

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

[ttnsam13]

のる means to ride

[Alex1_0_1]

Or it means to get on. As opposed to おりる, get off.

[Ray848381]

Is つかい general "use" like in English, or is it specific to using a vehicle?

[kai19154]

"Use" is universal for anything. Use a chair use a pencil use a car use a lamp etc

[babumiek7]

スタンド使い？

[Jakob733099]

Yep. A stand user, スタンド使い

[Queen_Ziga]

Why を and not に or は?

[benjimon5]

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.

[Karen344707]

How do you say "electric car"? The kanji for train is "electric car."

[AaronSmart3]

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.

[Luke16187]

使い isn't playing any audio when I tap it . Should I report it ?

[Alex1_0_1]

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.

[kurogyo]

Yes, same for me

[ttnsam13]

つかく　means to use

[Inglenook]

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。

[eclairevoyant]

why not 「電車に乗る」? if you're "using" a train you're riding it, i assume

[25rock]

I thought "use the train" means "ride the train"...

[StudentZombie]

What is the situational difference of using つかい vs のり？

[Ella766413]

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

[DanVR07]

Why is there no sound on 使い?

[Erik173910]

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?

[iyammy]

Shouldn't the particle be "で" instead of "を"？

[Ronald599467]

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​