"かぜがつよくふきます。"
Translation:The wind blows strongly.
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and here i thought it just switched to -く when you were negating it. now I'm starting to better understand, thanks!
in order to negate, the adjective has to end in くない (plain form) or くありません (polite form)
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@feelingelectric: It would be incorrect to combine ありません and です. ありません is already a verb; you don't need the です copula on top of that.
@feelingelectric Even if some Japanese people are using that, stacking multiple polite forms is grammatically wrong and you shouldn't do it.
eh, not necessarily, though thats a good rule to start with. I believe the more polite/formal would be つよくありませんです
While that may be true. In the case of a general truth about the weather today, it should be an acceptable translation.
On a previous question i was told the proper answer is "a strong wind blows." Being a good soldier, i entered that on this question and was told i was wrong. What do you want from me?!
Pay attention to the sentence: つよい風 = strong wind
つよくふきます = to blow strongly
It's important to note what the adverb/adjective is describing.
Even after all these lessons I still struggle to differentiate when a topic or subject particle is needed.
What would 「かぜはつよくふきます」mean? Would it change the actual meaning of the sentence or just shift emphasis?
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Changing が to は might shift emphasis or change the implication depending on context, but either translation should be accepted.
I also think は should be allowed here, the meaning would be "As for the wind, it blows strongly" - which matches the meaning of the sentence. Could anyone verify if this is correct/explain why not?
"A strong wind blows" should be correct.... The answer given sounds unnatural
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That's not what the sentence says. Read the rest of the comments in the thread. 強い風が吹きます would mean "(a) strong wind blows"; this sentence says 風が強く吹きます, "(the) wind blows strongly". Changing つよい to つよく and changing the position turns it from an adjective into an adverb, turning "strong" into "strongly".
Although you're right from a literal standpoint, I don't think that was Rael763700's point. He said that the correct answer sounds unnatural, and he's right. There's plenty of other times in Duolingo when nonliteral but more natural sounding answers are accepted.
There's more real world merit in giving a natural translation especially when it doesn't change the meaning, so I would agree with him that "A strong wind blows" should also be accepted as a correct answer
If we are to resurrect 1+ year old comments, then here are my two cents: I would argue that in the use case of Duolingo - learning a new language - it is essential to differentiate between things like adjective/adverb, because if you do not and instead accept more natural translations, then you could end up confusing the user.
Also, I think that this sentence was ill-chosen and another sentence with more natural English translation should have been chosen for presenting learners with Japanese adverbs. Hopefully the reworked Japanese tree will prove better in this regard.
Because of the が particle, couldn't this also be translated, "Wind blows strongly" as in, "in general"? It was counted wrong for me.
No. GA just is just the way how you say grammatically correct how the wind blows.
what is windy in japanese? is kazegatsuyoi not just that? it is windy, seems a proper translation to me. help please
There's no good reason that "the wind is strong" should not have been accepted.
Yes, there is. "The wind is strong" is not an exact translation since it's missing the verb (to blow).
The wind is strong. = 風が強いです。
The whole point of this sentence is to learn / practice adverbs and the verb "blow".
Wouldn't it be fair to also say the wind blows hard? -_- in english, both answers have the same meaning
Yeah, no one says the wind is blowing strongly... The real life translation should be the wind is blowing hard...
It really should be because there's no dialect of English I've ever encountered where "The wind blows strongly" would feel natural.
lets not dangle participles. "A strong wind is blowing" may be better
In USA , you wouldn't say strongly like that ...there is a strong wind blowing is how we would say that.
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That's not what the sentence says. Read the rest of the comments in the thread. 強い風が吹きます would mean "(a) strong wind blows"; this sentence says 風が強く吹きます, "(the) wind blows strongly". Changing つよい to つよく and changing the position turns it from an adjective into an adverb, turning "strong" into "strongly".
True, but presumably people in Japan do. I think it makes more sense for the sentences to be formatted in such a way that's natural for the language you're learning even if it's odd (but still intelligible) in the language you already know.
Based on (US) English speaking patterns these sentences would all be something like: 風は強いです。 If we do that then we're just learning vocabulary and using the same basic grammar we learned several lessons ago.
While I can see your point, we are being forced to remember exactly how to speak English strangely to get the answer correct.
I think simply "the wind is strong" would be more appropriate despite "the wind blows strongly" being the more correct but too literal translation.
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That's not what the sentence says. Read the rest of the comments in the thread. 強い風が吹きます would mean "(a) strong wind blows"; this sentence says 風が強く吹きます, "(the) wind blows strongly". Changing つよい to つよく and changing the position turns it from an adjective into an adverb, turning "strong" into "strongly".
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...That's just incorrect. I don't know where you would have gotten the idea that "strongly" is not a word.
According to Dictionary.com, it's been a word since before the year 1000 CE.
