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"Lo siento, esta mañana mi padre está muy ocupado."
Translation:I'm sorry, this morning my father is very busy.
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To people asking: manana means both morning and tomorrow. You have to figure it out by using the context. "This tomorrow" doesnt make sense; therefore, it would be "this morning"
Not quite. "La mañana" translates as morning while just "mañana" translates as tomorrow. It is not a case of mañana translating as BOTH morning and tomorrow. That would be totally confusing. Here, "esta" (this) stands in for the "la" as you sort of implied, ballpark wise speaking. I need to give you one thumbs down to negate at least one of all thumbs up that have been given you by people you misinformed.
I am sure you will see the light eventually. Duolingo has been redesigned to not allow ignorance to forge ahead. In the early days one could make as many as three errors and be able to jump to the next lesson. Too bad you weren't around then. You would do well.
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Haha, EugeneTiffany, I gave you a thumbs up for the same reason. Do I remember rightly that "mañana a mañana" means "tomorrow morning?"
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"mañana a mañana" means "every single morning", "mañana en la mañana" or "mañana por la mañana" means "tomorrow morning".
Maybe a little off considering the post below, but I find your way to be helpful in remembering, so a thumbs up for both of you.
I'm confused with the esta vs. este again...shouldn't it be "este muy ocupado" because este is masculine?
Yo estoy - i am
Tú estás - you are
El/ella está - he/she is
Is different from
Esto: that (neutral, not mentioned in sentence)
Este: that (masculine)
Esta: that (feminine)
The 'this' in this sentence is referring to 'morning', therefore you need to match the gender of mañana, not padre.
You need to use accents when they are called for. esta is not the same as está.
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I would say I'm sorry, my father is very busy this morning but I'm sure that would be counted as a wrong answer?
I said dad instead of father and it was marked wrong. What is the word for dad?
In english they use to say tomorrow meaning next day and morrow for morning, so yes... mañana is tomorrow and esta mañana means this morning.
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"Esta mañana" is a literal translation of "this morning," but not one that is used by native Spanish speakers. Basically, "esta mañana" is Spanglish. When studying a language, you have to accept how native speakers use their language. Connotative Spanish usage is found in EugeneTiffany's comments on this page.
Linda, could you provide us with a citation for what you said. How do you know that esta mañana isn't real Spanish? This is a serious question. I would like see anything on the Internet posted by a reputable source that provides the information that "esta mañana" is Spanglish. This would be important to know and understand.
Okay, before I saved this I Googled esta mañana and saw a huge number of links of Spanish pages, and not many English ones. Saw that there was a Spanish speaking TV show called, ESTA MAÑANA. There are lots of web sites about that, in Spanish. Also saw that "esta noche" is also an existing Spanish phrase.
No, she seems to have confused "esta mañana" for "en la mañana". There's nothing 'un-spanish' about esta mañana. It is a legit Spanish phrase, and I've also seen it everywhere. In a forum on spanishdict, a native speaker said that "Some people say Mañana en la mañana but that's not really the Spanish way. We use por la mañana, por la tarde, y por la noche* for 'in the morning', 'in the afternoon', and 'in the evening'." (Her words)
(I think she may have meant "por la noche" as "at night" since "evening" is "tarde".)
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.... my father is really busy. It was accepted.
You can use really to emphasize an adjective.
Mañana means tomorrow, no? Here the meaning is "morning". Two negatives meanings for one word?
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I know mañana por la mañana means tomorrow morning. I think this example is similar to that one.
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As far as I know "Mañana" is Tomorrow while "La mañana" is Morning but this doesn't fit for the current exercise.
Is no one confused as to why occupied is wrong? If anything, wouldn't it be more correct, since occupied is the direct translation of ocupado?
You are correct. But why stop there since "ocupado" can be translated as, busy , occupied , taken , engaged , kept?
The thing is though, since Duolingo is not teaching us translation, all the possible synonyms for any given word in existence are not in the database. And no amount of reports will get them there.
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Not true. When enough native speakers go up the reverse tree, as you are doing, and give their corrections and feedback, the database of alternate translations and interpretations will eventually grow. Remember, over two million people are working on this. Besides, who wants to learn a language and not learn the synonyms it contains?
Duro can be translated as: hard , tough , harsh , difficult , stiff , severe , hardcore , strong , stale , stern , stubborn , unkind , intensive , adamant , hard-hearted , hard-boiled
Adverb: rough
Noun: die-hard , hard-liner
So you are expecting Duolingo to eventually support all those words in the lessons?
Good luck with your Pollyanna thinking.
It will never happen, and mainly because Duolingo is not in the business of teaching us translation.
What Duolingo is trying to do here is teach us to think in Spanish like the natives do with all thought about English left behind.
Let me ask you, are you one of those students who like to believe that being fluent in Spanish means being able to do translations in one's head really well? I have news if that be the case. Being fluent does not work like that.
If Duolingo was teaching translation and will one day provide all the different ways to say something in English, why would Duolingo do that? Are we all supposed to be working here to become Professional Translators? Is that it? There could be no other reason.
Note: the "reverse" course has nothing to do with this one. It is for Spanish speaking people who want to learn English and the authors are most likely native Spanish speakers (at least, that's my guess as it makes the most sense), while here they are most likely native English speakers who have studied Spanish for some time. They know English well.
There is no tie or association between the two courses.
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Dedicated people who learn a language usually do the tree both ways, since that is the most complete way to learn using this application.
"Ocupado" meant worried in another Duo line, and here it means busy. It should still mean worried because he could be unless we know more about the situation, i.e., he might be very busy worrying.
Why is it esta (with accent) and not es ? Its neither position place nor emotion being busy @@
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But it's a condition. Estar is for PLACE (Position, Location, Actions, Conditions, Emotions) while Ser is DOCTOR (Descriptions, Occupations, Characteristics, Time, Origin, Relationships). https://www.spanishdict.com/guide/ser-vs-estar
actually it doesn't really care about commas it counts mine right if I lose a comma
I used was instead of is and it was wrong. I thought it was in past tense since it said "this morning." Oh well
This morning can refer to a past, present, or future. When I wake up, I can tell my children, "this morning we are cleaning the house".
The key is to look at the Spanish. Estás is present tense.
Shouldn't it be "I'm sorry, this morning my father was very busy."? Because saying "this morning" signifies past tense.
I think the reference to "this morning" (esta mañana) is a little different. Lo siento, esta mañana mi padre está ocupado infers that he is busy on this day at this specific time, but maybe another day or time will be better.
Me and mi sound different in Spanish. Mi sound like Mee and me like meh.
They're the same person, but different words in both languages: 'papá' = dad; 'padre' = father
I put "dad" and it marked it as wrong. I understand why "tomorrow" is incorrect, but is "dad" to informal?
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Isabelle, I think you're stretching the 'informal' logic a bit too far. Typically 'padre' = 'father' and 'papá' = 'dad'. Either word works in the informal setting.
Actually, now that I look at Duo's sentence the formal/informal question is moot. We are talking about 'mi padre' in the 3rd person. We aren't addressing him directly.
should it be "my father was very busy this morning" as im assuming "this morning" has passed and thus it would be suitable to use past tense "was" instead of present tense "is"
There is no reason to assume the morning has passed when the sentence is clearly present tense.
Está - is
It cannot mean was busy.
esta mañana
We use este with masculine nouns and esta with feminine ones.
Does that help?
If you invert the subject and the verb you are asking a question, '...is my father busy?' This is a statement, '...my father is busy'.
What's the difference between “este and es" while using it in place of ‘is'
In this sentence you use the verb 'estar' because the situation is temporary, which is 'está', not 'este'. 'Este' means 'this' when used with a masculine noun.
Seriously, I wrote "sorry, this morning my farther is very busy" and it's incorrect. Come on
The error is in 'farther', which is an English word the system recognises, so it marks it as incorrect. The correct spelling is 'father'.
Dont know why it was as a mistake when I put down : I am sorry, this morning is my father very busy. They did wrong translate and I am afraid it will be worst and worst when sentences will get more complicated. I hope not.
You've reversed the subject and the verb, thus turning it into a question. The word order is the same as Spanish, '...mi padre es...' = ...my father is...'
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So I wrote, 'Im sorry, but this morning my father is very busy.' It marked me wrong. Why? It makes more sense in English to add that but!
They're asking you to translate the sentence, not rewrite it according to your own preference.
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I wrote 'I'm sorry, but my father is very busy this morning.' It got kicked back. Why? Makes more sense to me to add the but!
This morning is my father busy, is for me the same as,This morning my father is busy
It's not the same.
Is my father busy... can only be a question in English and would make no sense in a statement like this.
Sometimes my answer is correct but it's give wrong answer, and when i see the correct answer is the same mine. It's happened to me many times
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For good reason. In English, the word order does matter. "Is my father very busy" would be a question. "My father is very busy" is a statement. So there is quite a difference.
In English we wouldn't phrase the sentence this way...we would say, "I'm sorry, my father is very busy this morning." I don't think I have EVER heard anyone say it this way.
It's quite natural if you're emphasizing this morning. I've heard this kind of phrasing many times before.
The term spanglish is used for people mixing Spanish and English together when speaking.
When you use 'This morning', you can't use 'is'! You have to use 'was'!! I typed, 'I'm sorry, this morning my father was very busy.', Duo corrected me and said 'I'm sorry, this morning my father is very busy.'!!! Give importance to english as well, Duo!!!!
I'm not sure where you got the idea that this morning cannot be used with present tense. That's simply not true.
As I type this, it's 10:30 am.
This morning I'm answering questions on Duolingo.
This morning I'm I'm very tired.
You can also use this morning with the future. This morning I will clean my kitchen.
It's morning. The phone rings. The son answers, and the voice on the other end says, 'Hello young man, is your father free to talk about car insurance?' The son very wisely responds, 'I'm sorry, my father is very busy this morning', and hangs up the phone.
