"The children are eating soup."

Translation: Děti jedí polévku.

[ThomasDeki]

Děti jí polévku is also correct

[endless_sleeper]

It is not. We aim to teach Standard Czech only.

[ianrhunter]

Could someone confirm if "oni jí" is a variant, colloquial, or just incorrect?

[VladaFu]

It is Common Czech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language#Common_Czech

[molly640546]

I'm back with my word order questions. Děti polévku jedí?

[VladaFu]

It is only possible in a fairly limited number of situations where ARE EATING is strongly stressed and where the message is that they are indeed eating it or that they are eating it and not drinking it or something like that.

Since we do already accept "Polévku děti jedí." I will accept yours as well, but be sure to be aware of the disclaimer. It is NOT the normal word order.

[vjpombo]

Why is the answer "Ta dětí jedí polevku" (I missed the stress mark on polévku) marked wrong?

[VladaFu]

As I say to Ahmed above, the plural "děti" is the feminine gender.

[vjpombo]

I am unsure I am getting this right.
I was under the impression that the following is correct:

Noun
ditě: child, neuter singular
děti: children, ¿neuter? plural

Demonstrative pronoun
singular
ta: the/that, feminine singular
to: the/that, neuter singular

plural
ty: the/those, feminine plural
ta: the/those, neuter plural

But now, according to the clarification, "děti" is ¿feminine?
so that
"the/those children" ¿translates to "ty děti"?

[iBrow.]

Yes, dítě is neuter but děti is feminine. It's a weird exception.

[svrsheque]

yes.

[uncle_tom]

Why is "Děti žerou polévku" wrong?

[VladaFu]

žrát is used with animals, not people

[JordiFaxon]

Why is "Děti polévku jedí" not allowed? I feel like that syntax has been approved of in other sentences.

[VladaFu]

Czech is not Latin. Placing the verb at the end is NOT the normal thing to do. While it is accepted in many sebtenxe and quite likely can be accepted in even more of them it almost always completely changes the meaning or at least the cosus of the sentemce.

"Děti polévku jedí." is a grammatical Czech sentence, but it is NOT an anformation about what the children are doing nor the information about what they are eating. It strongly stresses that the children ARE in fact really eating (the) soup.

I am not completely sure if an article in front of the soup would be required or not in this case.

[Constanze681263]

"Jedí" sounds "jegi"- ish to me... hard to pronounce.

[svrsheque]

not much we can do to help.