"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.
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"restaurant" and "pet" use katakana but "refrigerator" is in hiragana... who'd've figured.
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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)?
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The etymology, from Wiktionary:
冷蔵 (reizō, “refrigeration”) + 庫 (ko, “depository”)
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.
There do exist cases that people are stored in refrigerator but in order to do that usually the murderer cut the victim into pieces so they don't really count.
Foreign Words that are borrowed are in Katakana but nouns from Japanese are hiragana.
There's a kanji for fridge, but it's really complicated and I can't remember it ;w;
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. -__-)
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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).
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Sono is near the prrson being spoken to ano is away from speaker and respondent.
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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.
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/
It gave me the 's option, so I took it and wrote "that refrigerator's new". But it marked it wrong and wants "that refrigerator IS new", spelled out explicitly? That's really annoying.
Duolingo gets confused by contractions, they make it think that maybe you mean "that refrigerator HAS new". Sure, you and I know that sentence doesn't make sense, but Duolingo doesn't. Considering that, it's best to skip contractions by default.
That said, it's still correct, so you should probably report it anyway if you do use a contraction. I'm just saying you're less likely to get corrected if you don't use them.
I thought "ano" meant "that over there" and "sono" meant "that", so I said "that refrigerator over there is new", but I guess I'm being too literal again? XD
"That fridge over there is new" is still marked wrong (Apr 5, 2019) although "that... over there" has been accepted in other instances for あの...
