"Jí i chléb."
Translation:He even eats bread.
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If i understand correctly it could also be translated as "he eats also bread"
but these proposals are not identical in meaning (he even eats bread, he eats also bread), why then they are translated in the same way (Jí i chléb)? Please, answer which translation is more accurate
When learning foreign languages you will find out that many sentences wiithout context are ambiguous, to a certain degree, and there simply is no "more correct" translation.
Yes.
Or even "it" (e.g. a dog), even though "Žere i chléb" would be more likely then.
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prosím … proč nemůže být.... "And also He eats bread"…... ? podle Duo AJ z ČJ je "Even" = "dokonce i", "and also" = "i". Děkuji.
Takhle to dělat nejde, musí se brát v úvahu smysl věty, ne jen mechanicky doplňovat slova ze slovníku. Už jsem odpověděl tady https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/25240469
And also he eats bread. by bylo A také jí chléb.
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"Jí I chléb" jsem přeložil "they eat even bread" co na tom není dobře? A pokud to je dobře mělo by to být doplněno
Stačí si zjistit, jak se spisovně časuje "jíst" ;-)
"jí" je jen jednotné číslo (ve spisovné češtině).
Using the indefinite article here is incorrect, because we're talking about eating bread in general -- rather than about eating one piece/slice of bread. Another example: "He drinks milk" is correct; "He drinks A milk" is incorrect.
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Well, I wander exactly that, how do we know it is general and not some concrete bread. For example parents are looking at their kid and one of them say...
I cannot think of any circumstances in which one would use the indefinite article in this case. I wounder why you think a parent looking at a child would say it, even if it were only one slice.
There is no logical reason why one slice should not be referred to as 'a bread' when one can say 'a bread roll', but that is how it is and don't ask me why.