"치마를 입으면 불편해요."
Translation:Wearing a skirt is inconvenient.
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Personally I feel like it depends on the context. Is it inconvenient putting on the skirt or does it put the person in a situation that makes it inconvenient? If not and we're talking about feeling, it should definitely be 'uncomfortable'
comfortable and inconvenient are the same word in korea. my father-in-law usually asks me if i'm feeling convenient so that's more than likely why they've got 'confused'.
'치마를 입는 것은 불편해요' would still be correct.
The literal translation of '치마를 입으면 불편해요' is 'If i wear a skirt, it's uncomfortable."
Yeah that's what I put but they marked it wrong. :/ Actually my first instinct was to write what Duo has, but then I thought "Oh no, the more literal is still good in English" so I went with that instead
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Also, in my answer I put , "if you wear a skirt" because of the 입으면 in the korean phrase but was marked wrong. Why is that?
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Two years after your comment, I wrote, "If I wear a skirt, it is uncomfortable." It was marked wrong. I reported that my answer should also be accepted. Again tonight, I wrote "If I wear a skirt, it is uncomfortable." It was still marked wrong. I reported again that my answer should also be accepted. Aug. 26, 2020.
I've heard it used for these sort of blanket statements before, so it's not wrong, but should really accept both.
The translation makes sense but most learners learn (으)면 as "if" so answers saying "if i/you wear a skirt" should not be incorrect because it all depends on context. Also, since 편하다 is comfortable and convenient is 편리하다 why is 불편하다 inconvenient instead of uncomfortable?
is 'it is inconvenient if i wear a skirt' acceptable too? The example answer said 'It is inconvenient if you wear a skirt.' ... but it doesn't seem obvious that the speaker is talking to someone else or about themselves
Yeah, I agree, it doesn't seem obvious that the person is talking about another person.
