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- "Il existe des bananes roses."
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Il existe des bananes roses
- Pink bananas exist
- There are (such things as) pink bananas
Il y a des bananes roses
- There are (some) pink bananas (over there)
Except it doesn't accept using the word "exist". It corrected me to "there are" which is not being indicated.
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I noticed that as well. "There exist pink bananas" should be accepted. I reported it.
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"There exist" is not frequent, and is perhaps more formal, but it is good English. Reported again today.
It is indeed more formal.The only place where I've heard the formulation "there exists xyz" is in mathematical proofs. Alternative formulations (in order of formality):
"Pink bananas exist." "There is such a thing as pink bananas." "Pink bananas are a thing."
I don't know if Duo accepts these, but it should in my opinion.
I didn't try it on this sentence but on another in this unit I did do the "(plural items) exist" form and it accepted it.
I used to eat pink bananas when I lived in Darwin, Australia. They are really delicious!
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If I wanted to stress the existence of such delights, I would be far more likely to say either "Pink bananas exist" or "There exist pink bananas" than "There are pink bananas". I can almost hear the exclamation mark after the first two sentences, but the last sentence suggests no more than "There are (some) pink bananas on the table. Would you like one?". Maybe it is because the existential "There are" always cries out for a locative in English, so you always want to finish it off with what looks like redundancy but isn't really (There are pink bananas there).
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I guess you don't want to take the Spanish tree, because in Spanish, a pair of inverted and a non-inverted is enough.
Often times on the internet people use multiple punctuation marks in order to bring emphasis to certain points for example if someone is very excited they might use multiple exclamation points or if someone is confused they might use multiple question marks.
This was tricky... I heard bananes roses but thought that can't be .. pink bananas?
is there any clue that this is plural from the audio that I am missing?
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"Il existe des bananes roses." The clue is "des", which sounds like "day" and indicates the plural.
The sense of when to use "il existe" vs "il y a" does not come across in the exercises. Trying to apply 'physical possibility' vs 'availability' only works occasionally.
