"The crab sleeps comfortably in the water."
Translation:게가 물에서 편하게 잡니다.
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I typed "게가 물에서 편하게 자요" but it said I was wrong and instead told me to write "잡니다". Did I wrongly conjugate "자다"?
March 1, 2021 - still not accepted. This is unbelievably frustrating, how some lessons, it just seems like... hundreds of people must have reported this by now, and nobody at Duo is actually checking these reports.
@duolingo: why would the form 자요 be wrong? can you give us the grammatical reason here?
Duo is a spoiled brat. Language has "rules" that are imposed after the fact. They aren't hard and fast rules like math. More like, "We just don't say it that way" or "We prefer it this way." Plus, algorithms are more rigid than language and can't allow for exceptions unless programmed to do so. Whenever I start yelling at Duo, I remind myself of those two things - and give Duo what it wants. Spoiled brat.
We add 서 only when the verb is an active verb but sleeping is not an active verb
i didn't think of that but that's a good question, from what i know 속에서 in water implies immersion/submersion in the water?
Maybe since you wrote 에 instead of 에서? I haven’t tried writing it like that
i wrote 게가 울 안에서 편하게 자요, and it's marked wrong. Can a speaker check if this is indeed incorrect?
That should be allowed. As long as the verb is at the end of the sentence, the location of the subject does not matter.