"아이가 쓰고 읽어요."

Translation: The child writes and reads.

[Druckles]

Not, "The child is bitter and reads?" ;-)

[tedkang07]

bitter is 쓰다,but it is sense,Like a 맵다, And I'm korean :)

[Lauri_613]

What is "맵다"?

[Matteo166393]

It means spicy

[Aerchii]

What's the difference between saying "The child reads and writes." and "The child writes and reads."? Is it because "read" is the ending word?

[8KEI2]

Korean is SOV and English is SVO. Reading and writing are both verbs. I made the mistake of switching reading before writing on habit, but the two have the same meaning and should still be accepted.

[HP1895]

Duo would not be able to differentiate between someone knowing the wrong words and someone writing them in the wrong order. Maybe that is why it doesn't accept that. I got it wrong too- force of habit.

[NJKanui]

I totally agree

[James917737]

Personally I'd agree with you. "Read and write," is an English phrase that borders on idiomatic, and meaning with that order feels more wrong in this case.

[Ash-Fred]

Yes, they are two different sentences that happened to carry the same meaning in the logical sense.

[marchisea]

What's the function of "고" after the 쓰 stem? Is it descending of 그리고?

[kenai_]

It's used with verbs and means "and" i think, correct me if im wrong

[Ash-Fred]

Yes.

[gabriellelo]

"Kid" is not acceptable, but "child" is? They have the exact same meaning.

[nleconte]

Flag it ;)

[Ash-Fred]

"The kid writes and reads." is currently accepted.

[Tazmeen.C]

It didnt work for me :(

[JovyAyase]

Please explain to me, but i previously saw a sentence using 서 to mean and, and now I'm seeing 고 so which is which and when do I use whichever

[Ash-Fred]

-아서/-어서 means and (then).

[Rose468589]

Can 아이는 be used here instead of 아이가? What's the difference?

[Ash-Fred]

"아이는 쓰고 읽어요." and "아이가 쓰고 읽어요." are most likely to be an answer to "What does the child do?" and "Who writes and reads?/Who does what?", respectively.

[lisamybias]

That's me

[ZUx6eIma]

the idiomatic use in english is reads and writes. never heard it the other way.

[Jules0359]

I said "The child reads and writes." That is practically the same thing, right?

[dpatkat]

Both are verbs, neither is subject topic nor object.

[ski508]

I wrote the child reads and writes and got in wrong

[hello_ahanana]

I wrote the correct answer

[OAKJWOOD]

I can argue that American English says we "read and write" in that order. But I also put the first word as "read" because it's the final ending verb. Regardless of the order, both should be acceptable. Come on, Duolingo...

[calicochloe]

why does the order matter? reads and writes vs writes and reads the kid still does both things it shouldn't matter