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- "Bär gegen Pferd"
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This statement isn't random enough for my liking, come on Duolingo!!! Perhaps something along the lines of 'the chickens play darts' or 'the foxes discuss the works of Friedrich Engels and his impact on the working classes of Victorian Britain'.
I read your second sentence as "the foxes discuss the works of Friedrich Engels and his impact on the working chickens of Victorian Britain."
Sometimes sentences in Duolingo can be silly that I had to put my phone down every five seconds.
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It sorts of reminds the brutality of the premedival times, when beasts were pitted against each other in coliseums, with horrific consequences, just for "fun".
You're right. Average speeds for both are around 25-35 mph, and the fastest racehorse went about 44 mph. Bears have been clocked at 28 mph and sustaining that for two miles. It seemed to me that horses would be faster and have more endurance, but apparently bears are close in the speed department.
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This is possibly part of the same book that discusses the sisters washing the train station. Maybe they were cleaning up after the horse/bear MMA battle. I'd buy that book...
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I used versus and it didn't work. Why would the tip say it means both if it doesn't accept one of the answers.
The mouse-over tip is more like a dictionary entry— it shows possible translations of the word, but the best one might be different in different contexts.
It's right out of the Eddie Izzard school of learning a language . You Tube: Eddie Izzard - La Singe est dans l'abre
Ou est la singe? La singe est disparu! La singe conduit le autobus!
It would be annoying that this sentence takes up half the questions if it weren't so useful
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Because apparently bears and horses are very competitive against each other in Germany.
I am ok with these
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a Bear against a horse.
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the Bear against the horse.
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Bears against horses.
But
- Bear against horse
Can someone give me a context for this sentence?
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The horse by a long nose....I think I listened to that 20 or more times, on fast, slow and still couldnt understand what the first word was so I made up a new one...beyar....maybe I should just have thought of Yogi!
Can't tell if actual German or straight-up lemme make up a "German word"
Why does this same one come up again and again! OK, I've got this one! It would help a lot if the exercises had more variety and helped in practicing different noun genders.
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Repetition, repetition, repetition! The more you see a word or phrase, the less likely you will forget. They are trying to drill it into you. If the section is too easy for you, just test out!
I was testing out and the sentence came up three times. Then I tested out to Level 2 and it came up three times again. This cannot be coincidence. It must be a coded message from the Bavarian Illuminati.
I wish this phrase were dropped - smacks of cruel practices long gone from civilised countries.
Who will win... A mighty brown monster weighing over 200 pounds that consumes honey for breakfast... Or one speedy boi.
The surprisng Thing, that some comments here imagining the "Against" as a fight, but it might be just a chess match between both of them, or a sprint race
Would it be wrong to translate it as "bear versus horse"? I tried that and it was wrong
Usually not. Maybe there are some specific context concerning compass directions where you could find a possibility to translate it like that (the only one I can think of at the moment is something like "into the setting sun" which might by translated as "dem Sonnenuntergang entgegen").
I have gotten this sentence three times in a row now. If this is an important sentence in Germany, I’m not sure I want to go there.
Ah, German Duolingo, I have missed you. If for nothing else, then for this kind of sentences. The Spanish one is way too non-surreal for my liking.
The funniest part is that I have put on some Skyrim music and was like, "Okay, now I´m gonna get all cool and tranquil, you know, go into some places deep, internally. Down to where my Nordic roots resign. To where the mind finds serenity and the soul finds power. The magical, beautiful place of wonder, where everything comes from and to where everything will go.
The Source of all Creation, the Fatherland of Heavens and Earth, where the winds hit hard against the mountains, and I stand there, alone and all-present, Spirit against Eternity and... Duo: Bear against horse.
