"Hledám tu slepici."

Translation: I am looking for the hen.

[Skylerdw]

Why is "a hen" not accepted?

[VladaFu]

"TU slepici", the particular one

[Skylerdw]

Right, I translated it as "I am looking for a hen here" tu - here

[VladaFu]

But you did not say that! How should we know?

[Skylerdw]

Chill out mate, just asking.

[VladaFu]

I am completely serious and calm. How should we act on such incomplete problem reports? This is a cold fact, the original report was not of much use, dude.

I have now added these sort of answers (where tu is meant as here).

[bienvenue_21]

'Tu' and 'To' are used sometimes for 'the' sometimes for 'that'. Is there any clue for this difference? Am I just making stuff up?

[VladaFu]

Not being a native English speaker I don't see much difference between the and that in this sentence.