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"A boy is swimming in the ocean."
Translation:男の子が海で泳いでいます。
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が denotes the subject, it's like looking at a boy in the sea.は denotes the topic and in this sense would describe something habitual, so 'Boys are (always) swimming in the sea' which would be odd to say.
Wrong, it is acceptable with は. It seems reasonable you should be able to point out a boy, establish him as the topic, then comment that he's swimming in the ocean.
Because "oyogimasu" means "swim" whereas "oyoideimasu" means "swimming"
It should be correct, for everyone that gets this wrong, report it so it gets accepted if it's still not.
In this lesson unit they have translate うみ as ocean and sea, is it correct? Dictionary gives 海 「うみ」for sea, and 海洋 「かいよお」 for ocean.
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In colloquial, 海「うみ」means both, oceans and seas.
In the geographical term, we use 海「かい」for sea, and 洋「よう」for ocean.
- Mediterranean Sea (地中海「ちちゅうかい」)
- Caribean Sea (カリブ海「カリブかい」)
- Red Sea (紅海「こうかい」)
- Yellow Sea (黄海「こうかい」)
- East China Sea (東シナ海「ひがししなかい」)
- Pacific Ocean (太平洋「たいへいよう」)
- Atlantic Ocean (大西洋「たいせいよう」）
- Indian Ocean (インド洋「インドよう」)
- Arctic Ocean (北氷洋「ほっぴょうよう」or 北極海「ほっきょくかい」)
- Antarctic Ocean (南氷洋「なんぴょうよう」or 南極海「なんきょくかい」)
洋 (or 海洋 or 大洋) is just a very large 海. 海 designates a large area of salt water. So one will use 海 to designate an ocean when what matters is that it's a large area of salt water, and 海洋 only when it matters that it is one of the largest on the planet. So here, 海 is the way to go.
In Chinese, 海洋 feels like an overarching category of things. For example, we say:海洋 can only be found on earth. In comparison, we say: I want to swim in the 海。Although these two terms can definitely be used interchangeably, we tend to treat 海 as more conversational whereas 海洋 slightly more formal.
The verb I learned for swim is 泳ぐ（およぐ）, so what happens to the ぐ? How does it go from that to いで? I might have expected ぎ at least.
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Why not 男の子が海に泳いでいます instead of the answer? What would change between using に instead of で？
