"Es geht."
Translation:I'm all right.
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Maybe you do not recall what was your original "not accepted" answer? I have a feeling that maybe they changed it since to an even worse solution?
Fitting with the precedent of how Duolingo handles other idiomatic phrases, that should be accepted so report it if not.
But you should know that when a German says es geht, especially in the context of you asking how they are doing, it means something noncommittal somewhere between "well" and "terribly".
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Noncommittal is 'not expressing or revealing commitment to a definite opinion', so its a vague answer, like answering "Okay", "So-so", and so on. Both are common English phrases.
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I believe noncommital just means it falls between well and terribly and is liable to change easily. So-so is a phrase in English, and going along with the OP's question, I have rarely but occasionally heard "It goes" or "It's going" as a similarly noncommital response to "How's it going?"
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Hilarious. I came from a "type what you hear" question, and they provide "I'm all right" as its meaning.
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I thought it was spelled "I'm alright" not "I'm all right". I get that the former is informal, but the use of the contraction implies that this is an informal conversation, no? Very curious to know more about the grammar of this sentence!
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German has a more similar expression "So lala" for "So so", so it's more logical here they pick up "It's going".
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Again and again: " Es geht" is Duo nonsense. It means solala/ weder gut
noch schlecht = neither good nor bad. If you really feel fine, good,all right ,alright ,ok you have to say: Es geht mir gut or mir geht's gut.
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How about sth like "it's fine" along with the alternate expressions given in the other comments?
Two pass reply: - In the realm of idioms, if one were to say “It’s fine!” with the enthusiasm of an adolescent reflecting after their first kiss, versus the same reply from a tenured I’m-just-glad-to-be-home employee: same words, different meaning. - From a monotone stance, It’s uber-tastic, It’s great, It’s fine, It’s alright, It’s par, It could be better, It’s …., these relay levels of personal wellbeing without visual or auditory cues. Sumary: Until Duo offers full emersion VR, may be best to think in terms of monotone answers.
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When it asks me to say aloud "es geht", I know I'm pronouncing it correctly but the stupid system for some reason doesn't recognize that. It marked me wrong twice.