"There are almost no dogs."
Translation:개가 거의 없습니다.
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Now I understand. 별루 is "not many", and 거의 is " almost". It's a little bit different :)))))
and the particles strike again... why can't i say 개는 in this occasion? (only 개가 is accepted) (what are the nuances between both options here?)
가 is used for when a subject is newly talked about. 는 is used when continuing to talk about such. So if you are talking about a house and then change the subject to dogs it would be 개가 and if if you continue to talk about the dogs 개는.
Duolingo was giving me this question and a duplicate question. They both want me to translate this from English to Korean but they are giving me different correct answers and wrong answers, and because I could not tell the difference between the questions (again, they are completely identical) I did not know which way to answer when they came back up at the end of the lesson (I thought I was getting the same question again and again so I was confused as to why it would mark me wrong and correct me, then when I gave the correct answer I was marked wrong again). One question marked me wrong for 개가 거의 없습니다, and then the other would mark me wrong for 개가 별로 없습니다. Then when I switched the two answers (as in, I gave the same answer twice in a row, so I switched the order I was answering in), they were finally accepted. Not sure if this is a problem with the course or a bug, but if there is something that can be done to prevent it, that would be awesome
- 1454
거의 means 'almost" and 별로 means "not so many". They are different, it's not the same question.