"Es un barco enorme."

Translation: It is a huge ship.

[Zia177448]

"An huge"? I always thought it was "a huge"... Or is my accent that bad and nobody else would pronounce the "h"?

[Melanie651735]

Should be a. An is only if it is followed by a word starting with a vowel. The last time i checked, h is not a vowel!

[neogerot]

Is is a big ship is not the correct translation?

[rspreng]

Duo is fussy and big = 'grande'

[Mathewtheraven]

it didn't accept "a huge ship"

Saying it should be "an huge ship"

Bit pedantic right? Plenty of people say "A huge ship"

[ExProcrastinator]

March 2019, "a huge ship" was accepted.

[jesuiskatielee]

I believe it should be 'a' rather than 'an' in this case, with huge.

[rein0258]

Why doesn't "large" work for "enorme"?

[mawileboy]

enorme is bigger than large

[LukeHoltom]

This ones kinda a matter of opinion as neither really has a defined size.

[Robbadob]

Still, saying something is large isn't as emphatic as saying something is enormous.

[RockStarr21]

Large = grande
Enormous = enorme.
They are synonyms but not the same word.

[gemaze]

also "giant" does not work

[Pelaaja_X]

yep, it should work

[ndenker]

Why does it suggest "vessel" and then tell me it is wrong?!?

[Seth833518]

The English translation (level 1 of this lesson) is wrong. It marks the correct answer as "It is AN huge ship" instead of "It is A huge ship"

[Linda329032]

A huge in my book

[vicki.kura]

I'm wondering what they call a barge. It is a ship and it is how my head is remembering barco to be ship.

[emperorchiao]

A barge is "una barcaza"

[vicki.kura]

Gracias. :)

[TheSmithinator]

Move this to the Flirting lesson?

[OreoMcsnuffles]

¿Nave es mucho?
Es un barco enorme.

[CeeCeeSong]

said giant wasn't accepted; should be "gigantic." Nitpicking, Duo.

[ImReallyCo]

Why is "it is an enormous boat" not right, it says the real answer is "it is 1 enormous boat"

[jonathanbost]

Maybe if you said "it is one enormous ship" it would have accepted it.

[mk_95_95]

Why doesn't "huge" work?

[Delta5-4life]

BIG/HUGH/ENORMOUS ALL MEANS THE SAME..
I HATE BEING DING 4 KNOWING MY LANGUAGE.
THEY NEED 2 FIX THIS FREAKIN PROBLEM

[Robbadob]

You make it look like you don't know how "2" speak English. Big isn't as large as huge, which isn't as large as enormous. Duolingo tries to keep this distinction by assigning to each Spanish word a specific English counterpart.

grande = big

enorme = enormous

[alice51k]

Its the titanic

[papabeartim]

It is a big boat -- not correct? Why not? It's a literal translation.

[jsshubham]

Una barca is a ship not an ship please correct

[peachy.jeon]

ya'll this isn't proper english,, "it is an huge ship"

[BhpRJ]

A huge ship. It is an... No good

[Bella277236]

Duolingo grammar is incorrect. The info read "Es un barco enorme", which means "It is a huge ship". Duolingo did not have the proper word selection. You had "an" not "a", so your choice was to say "It is an huge ship" is incorrect. It should be "It is a huge ship". So, I did not chose the choice of the word "an". You should have accepted my answer. Duo is incorrect.