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- "そのドアをあけてください。"
"そのドアをあけてください。"
Translation:Please open that door.
July 14, 2017
18 Comments
MikeWillisUK
294
I'm pretty sure I've seen Duo use その as 'the' rather than 'that' earlier in the course, so I think you're right. I'm not an expert though.
brunojam
106
A lot of languages (like nahuatl, indonesian and japanese) do not have articles for "the", instead, they use the demonstrative "that", when strictly necessary to emphasize you are talking about a specific object (otherwise, they just write without it). When you are translating from these languages, "the" and "that" can have basically the same meaning, so that is something to keep in mind when learning japanese.
Thkgk
676
Please fix this. Look at the duolingo Japanese-English course. Here sono is always translated as "the".