"침대 아래에 거미 세 마리가 숨어요."
Translation:Three spiders hide under the bed.
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"I am the one hiding under your bed, teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red." These three spiders could replace this monster in Nightmare Before Christmas
Why did I find this sentence so cute?? Idk, the fact that they're hiding is just so cute
I'd rather the one hiding under my bed, with teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red than three spiders.
I just imagine the tiny and skiny spiders that eat mosquitos and they are so cute.
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If you log into Duolingo in a browser you can see the Tips and there's a decent writeup on this.
Short version, 아래 = the area underneath something 밑 = the area underneath something OR the bottom of an object or area
How can you tell the difference between breathe and hide when the context does not make it obvious?
"There are three spiders hiding underneath the bed" is also marked as wrong. It only accepts "beneath" for some reason.
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How do you tell from the sentence structure if "three spiders are hiding under the bed" or "the bed is hiding under three spiders"?
In short, because there isn't a subject marker attached to 침대, but there is a subject marker attached to 거미.
We know that 거미 is the subject because it is attached to subject marker ~가 through the animal counter 마리. And we know that 침대 is the location because it's followed by the preposition 아래, which is attached to the location marker ~에.
But also context clues tell us that it would be very confusing if the bed was a) actively hiding, b) underneath 3 spiders.
The sentence is flipped around to emphasize the spiders are under the BED, rather than under some other piece of furniture.
