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- "あのれいぞうこはあたらしいです。"
"あのれいぞうこはあたらしいです。"
Translation:That refrigerator is new.
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It really irritates me how Duolingo omits kanji, without them, text is ambiguous and undecipherable, and for extremely complex kanji, just replace them with katakana like what normal Japanese people would do, that way we know they exist and can search for them if we want.
Well I actually prefer it this way. I am trying to learn how to SPEAK Japanese. with kanji sometimes I can READ the sentence in English but I can't pronounce it in Japanese. I feel like kanji should be introduced later. just like in real life you learn how to speak first and then learn (sometimes) how to read and write later. I actually wouldn't even mind Romaji first.
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"restaurant" and "pet" use katakana but "refrigerator" is in hiragana... who'd've figured.
Because the word "refrigerator" was not transliterated to the Japanese as "restaurant", "pet" and "bed", because katakana is used on foreign words.
I guess it depends on what word they end up using. "Restaurant" and "pet" end up being transliterated for some reason, but "refrigerator" was translated (and the word doesn't sound like it's derived from English)?
冷(cold) 蔵(store). The same three characters 冷蔵庫 means cold storage in Chinese as 庫 in Mandarin usually represents such a storage that is at least big enough for a person to enter.
Foreign Words that are borrowed are in Katakana but nouns from Japanese are hiragana.
冷蔵庫 I wrote to you about how to show kanji your key board. But you didn't read. (´･_･`)
Because you would say that differently in Japanese. It would be "それ/あれは新しい冷蔵庫です。".
ありがとう I forgot the fact that humans can rephrase their sentences while abiding by the grammar to express similar statements for different contexts and to shine a spotlight on a certain word.
(I'm still waiting for an official facepalm emoji to be created. -__-)
What @Aki-kun said. The placement of the adjective in relation to the subject matters.
And also the choice of あの vs あれ: the first is used together with a noun (like an adjective) and the second on its own (like a pronoun).
It's been a month so you've probably got the answer to this already, but in case anyone else comes across this with the same question:
The prefixes tell you the location in relation to the speaker/listener
こ - Near the speaker. この、これ、ここ (This noun, This one here, Here,)
そ - Near the listener. その、それ、そこ (That noun, That one there, There)
あ - Far from everyone. あの、あれ、あそこ (That noun over there, That one over there, Over there)
Bonus:
ど - Question form. どの、どれ、どこ (Which noun? Which one? Where?)
A more complete chart of these can be found here
http://www.japaneseprofessor.com/lessons/beginning/demonstratives-the-ko-so-a-do-series/
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That I get. However, Duo seems to (randomly) use ano for "that" and "the." It will not, however, accept both in response. [For example, here it will not accept "The refrigerator ..." but only "That refrigerator ..." Is there a clue that would tell me which it wants in any particular question?
Any time you see "ano" use "that." Even in English we would not use "the clock" if we were not referring to a specific clock, sono is more specific as it is the item in your immediate vicinity. If they are using ano as the, they are wrong as "the" has no meaning in Japanese although we could sometimes translate sono as such at times.
