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The male voice says "Ca maestra..." It isn't saying "La maestra..." Wierd!
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I heard that as well! at normal speed definitely "Ca" Only slowed does it sound "La"
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Happy to see muchas translated as many rather than the juvenile expression "a lot of" that duo has seemed stuck on.
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Muchos is referring to masculine nouns (example, muchos libros, muchos hombres, muchos maestros) OR a combinaron (muchos estudiantes, muchos amigos (They could be all boys, or boys and girls)
Muchas uses ONLY feminine verbs (muchas manzanas, muchas niñas, muchas maestras). When saying "muchas estudiantes", you are talking about a lot of female students, no male students
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In the second paragraph, Treefrog986 meant to say "...feminine nouns..." instead of "...feminine verbs...".
Treefrog986 was exclusively discussing the usage of the term, mucho (mucha), as an adjective.
In this forum thread, we probably will not be discussing other types of usage. For example, this same term, mucho, can also be used as a pronoun or as an adverb.
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@Cat694657
@LeoKawsar
You posted in the wrong forum thread. The thread you need to place your post in is the reciprocal thread to this thread that you are reading right now. You are thinking backwards.
Now go put your post in the right thread:
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26199416/The-teacher-has-many-students
Nobody who is reading my post should try to make sense of the upside down post by Cat694657 because it is irrelevant to the Duolingo exercise that is being discussed in this thread.
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Does everyone understand the question that Dianne5480 was trying to ask in her post? I can write her question more clearly.
quote (paraphrased):
Why isn't the following alternative answer also correct (and acceptable) to Duolingo? unquote"The teacher has
manya lot of students."
The answer to Dianne's question was already provided in the post by RyagonIV.
Sometimes we have to report mistakes to Duolingo. Sometimes it is necessary to submit feedback.
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Use muchos for masculine and muchas for feminine. This is my understanding.
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The pronounciation of the word muchos or muchas is not clear. Sounds like Muchoas. How can you tell if it is female or male that way! Even the spanish speaker next to me couldn't hear if it was muchos or muchas
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vacaciones translates as vacations or holidays in English--not the singular
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If you had it as an En>Es translation, "muchas estudiantes" is fine as well. Estudiante is gender-invariant.
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Mucho, muchos, muchas , it is all driving me crazy. I know the feminine and masculine thing. It is the s on the end of it. Mucho or muchos and mucha or muchas. I think I will take a break.
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If it's describing a singular noun, the adjective will be singular as well. If it's describing a plural noun, it'll be plural.
- mucho queso, mucha agua, mucho/a azúcar
- muchos hombres, muchas mesas, muchos/as estudiantes
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estudiantes is usually feminine. Las estudiantes, unas estudiantes, but in this sentence it is muchos estudiantes. What am I missing?
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The male voice is still saying "Ca maestra" on normal mode. Slow speed is correct.
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Here they say estudiantes is masculine. Elsewhere they say it is feminine. Can it be both? How can one tell which it is?
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Estudiante can be both, yes. You can tell which gender is meant by articles and adjectives used in conjunction with it. Here it's "muchos estudiantes", and since muchos is plural-masculine, estudiantes is also plural-masculine here.
Since English generally doesn't have gendered nouns, a En-Es translation should allow both "muchos estudiantes" and "muchas estudiantes" here. But if you have it as a listening task, you have to match the spoken sentence exactly.
