"Ella baja del caballo."
Translation:She gets off the horse.
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For those who (as myself) still didn't get it. : ) Please choose any meaning you like: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/get+off.html
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I got this correct first go, shows how i am being conditioned to the illogical thought patterns of duolingo
Not sure why doulingo gave me the hint, short, rather than decending.
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Can someone explain why this should not be: "Ella se baja del caballo."? For example, I might say: She lowers the saddle from the horse -- "Ella baja la silla del caballo." But since she lowers herself, I might expect a reflexive verb, "bajarse". Any ideas on this?
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I've been told repeatedly that most Spanish speakers do not differentiate 'b' from 'v' - generally leaning more towards the 'b' sound. We'll just have to practice understanding in context (e.g. vaja is not a Spanish word, so we must assume she is saying "baja.")
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It is so, in so many languages of the world and one such example is bengali , spoken in state of Bengal ,India and Bangladesh.
Bengali being the 7th most spoken language in the world.
They say V as B.
For instance , Ravindranth Tagore is Rabindranath Tagore.
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The same in Greek. Do you know the English poet, Vyronas (pronounce y as e in poet)? He has a street in Athens just under Acropolis, where he used to live. Well lord Byron is the man.
Google translate differentiates however unfortunately. Whenever I say bebe or bebo it picks up my pronunciation better if I pronounce them with a aspirated soft 'v'.
Spanish speakers frequently pronounce, b, as a sound intermediate to b and v. It is a sound that doesn't exist in English.
the write question should be " ella se baja del caballo" Duolingo should learn reflexive verbs!
This is unnecessarily awkward, and comes as the first sentence/lesson in this module.
I put "She dismounts from the horse," which is one of the meanings of bajar (from a horse or bicycle). I had to go to an outside dictionary to get a hint as to this, however.
LOL.. That was my first guess and I was like "What!? That does not sound right!" I was somewhat happy I got it wrong.
Baja = both an adjective and a verb. As an adjective, to be "short." As a verb (bajar), it means literally "to make shorter" .. or, in more approximate English, where we go from a higher altitude to a lower altitude. WR lists: take down, fall, drop, unzip, come down, go down, stoop, descend, lower, even download. Another instance of Spanish simplifying things, as someone pointed out in another discussion thread. There is also the word "abajo," which is more downwards including downhill, down stairs, below, etc.
"Under" would be"debajo de." And "bajo" would refer to "first floor, ground floor" as well as being the male variant of the adjective "Baja". Bajo is also: lower, below, beneath, etc.
If anyone wants to add to that or correct me, feel free!
Yes we abbreviate de + el = del but we don't abbreviate de + la. Same goes for a + el, which would = al.
