"つくえの上に花びんがあります。"

Translation: There is a flower vase on the desk.

[ronCYA]

花 - はな

花瓶 (花びん) - かびん

[Epicpeacock]

That's exactly what i was going to ask

[darthoctopus]

机の上に花瓶があります

[Sergei_K_]

つくえ  の  うえ   に  かびん   が  あります

[katharinalouise]

花瓶 is a vase, never heard flower vase in English

[Charlie148626]

My phone changed vase into base. So i ended up with a flower base.

[Graham692890]

Me neither. I posted that I thought Duo had been using Google translate and deleted my post because I then checked Google and it tranlated both 花瓶　and 　花びん　as vase.
Maybe Duo should use Google more often.

[audreyhep82]

Why if you touch the name "花びん" there is written "vase" and then, when I write it as this, they correct me as "flower vase"?

[Yuri.co]

I think the problem is in the writing... Vase is written 花瓶 and nowhere in the Japanese speaking world it is acceptable to write a word half in kanji half in hiragana. But duolingo does it. And by writing half the word in kanji I guess the algorithm expects there to be a flower, since you cannot find that word in a dictionary written like that.

[Thomas292098]

Although i like to rag on Duo all the time but in Japan this is quite common. Especially when the Kanji is difficult or underused. 天ぷら is an easy example.

[hippietrail]

• https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/56079/is-it-acceptable-to-use-kanji-and-hiragana-in-the-same-word-if-a-kanji-character

[jayfresh]

What sort of vase is there except a flower vase? ;)

[sora_Japan]

花瓶/かびん

花/はな is ’flower’. 瓶/びん is ’bottle’ etc.

The bottle for flower is vase. :D

[phnrique20]

Thanks! Makes total sense to me, it's interesting to know how words in Japanese are created just by putting different kanjis (with different meanings) together!!

[Titus948724]

Actually the word creation process you described as in 花瓶 is really a Chinese thing. 花瓶 is originally a Chinese word. Just FYI.

[MatiasMakipelto]

How would you say that there is a flower vase above the desk?

[Dehpuh1]

花 looks a lot like 死

[SweetGoblin]

Vase of flowers is not accepted?

[PastelWraith]

It doesn't accept "there is a vase above the desk". Is this wrong?

[EricPooley]

Is there a distinction between vase and flower pot for 「花瓶」

[Brian518745]

I got this as a write what you hear exercise. It marked me wrong for using 机 instead of つくえ but there's no option in the reporting to say that my answer should have been accepted

[CarteRouge]

机の上に花瓶があります。