"공원에 빨리 숨어요!"
Translation:Let's hide in the park quickly!
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It says the answer is "let's hide in the park quickly!"
I translated this as: 'quickly lets hide in the park!' Because of the exclamation mark i thought quickly was the focus... How did writing it this way change the structure of the sentence?
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The answer they give is an inaccurate translation unfortunately. The statement in Korean is actually a command- "Hide in the park quickly." It doesn't translate to "let's hide together." I've been flagging all of these for Duolingo
This is not a command but a proposition. This lesson is using the polite propositive mood.
I got the same vibe as well so I translated it as 'Hurry up and hide in the park!'. Naturally, Duo thought that was wrong. Is it just me, or is the Korean course in Duolingo a hot mess?
The Korean course definitely feels like a beta test, these distinctions wouldn't be such a problem if DuoLingo had usage tips the way it does in other courses.
By the way it's not a command but the ~어요 can mean a proposition (let's do), question (is doing?), and even present participle (he/she/it does) all depending on intonation of the syllables. Which is not obvious because the robots that read text in Duolingo don't always stress the syllables.
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I agree, Duo should've added the subject, '우리' at the beginning of the sentence. It would've made more sense with, "우리 공원에 빨리 숨어요!" Duo's sentence can mean a command in polite way (숨어요).
It wouldn't since, if you include the comma (Duolingo doesn't check punctuation), it would be, "Quickly, let's hide in the park!". The clauses work in English, that quickly can be at either the beginning or end of the sentence with no change in meaning
In English it's easiest to find adverbs when they are used immediately before the verb. However, Duo recognized "Let's quickly hide in the park!" as a typo, even though the "ly" word was used in a typically correct order in English. So, it should be noted as another correct solution without the "typo" indication.
To hide quickly...most often after a verb.
These are different combinatiins. Each one guven more imoortance on a different part of the statement.
Hide quickly! In the park!
In the park! Hide quickly.
Quickly, hide in the park!
..... Punctuation makes a difference. We'll need outside sources if Duolingo languages do not teach it. I can be very important.
"Let's quickly hide in the park." This sentence is correct and please add it to the list of acceptable answers.
Dunno why Pennywise suddenly came to mind... I need to stop watching thrillers, man
