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- "Mnoho dětí je tady."
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No. Czech numbers (including words that define amounts like many, a lot, few, several...) are weird.
2, 3 and 4 are followed by nominative and would have JSOU
5 and everything higher, including undefined amounts are followed by genitiv and JE
What I mean with the nominative and genitive
3 děti jsou modré.
6 dětí je modrých
mnoho dětí je modrých
The TIPS for numbers are on the list of Tips next, so hopefully the explanation there will be little more "scientific"....
No, I get it. I knew 2-4 were special, and had picked up by listening to recorded lessons that the verbs followed suit, but had no idea about nominative and genitive. Thanks for the explanation.
What about a hundred and three children?
- 103 dětí jsou modré; anebo
- 103 dětí je modrých?
Thanks muchly.
That is qhite a good queston and would wonder if this changes anything or it is still the same rule as all numbers over 5.
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Does it mean that the following is incorrect? 6 dětí je modré. Mnoho dětí je modré. And if not, which one is the preferable translation for "Many children are blue"?
'There are many children here' would be correct. Despite the illogic of 'there' equating to 'here'.
It was not accepted when I wrote it, thus the comment. If it is now, then great.
It has always been. Use the report button to report missing translations and not this discussions. If you want to ask here, please write an actual question or other full comment, not just "maybe".
I am sorry if my first comment was not clear enough. "There are many children here" is the correct answer in English. "Many children are here" does not make sense from a grammatical point of view. This is the full comment. Moreover, what you just wrote is not true. Doulingo rejected "There are many children here".
"There are many children here" is definitely accepted. But we have no current report, so if that was rejected for you, we can't tell you why; often there's just a typo or other small error. In any case, we've seen a number of instances recently in which Duo rejected valid translations. Perhaps the grading bug that we experienced a year or two ago is back.
Sometimes English is more complicated... or weak-minded... there and here in the same sentence
