"La chienne mange, le chien boit."

Translation: The dog is eating, the dog is drinking.

[oscarjoos]

"The bitch is eating, the dog is drinking."

[rayliverified]

Duolingo accepts this translation.

[colinwsmith]

That fourth word does not sound like a "le". It sounds more like "il", which makes no sense.

[Sitesurf]

Good, if you have understood that it makes no sense with "il", then you know it has to be "le".

[colinwsmith]

That's definitely a silver lining. :)

[jim.thomson]

I thought this said "la chiene mange le chien noir"!! :)

[PhoenixSupreme]

Aren't you not supposed to say the girl version of dog in French because it translates to "b****"? or is that only spanish

[Sitesurf]

No, not only Spanish, but in any event the slang meaning of "chienne" would only be used for a (very bad) woman or girl. No confusion in a sentence like the one at the top, where you are clearly talking about animals.

[chrisssy]

Yes, you're correct

[rollingstock]

Since the statement is specifically differentiating the dogs by gender, the best translation would say "The female dog is eating, the male dog is drinking" since English doesn't have a single word for a male dog.

[saturnqueen12]

why use boit?

[Sitesurf]

This is the conjugation for 3rd person singular il/elle/on.

[ingrthom]

This is incredibly difficult to understand... there is a comma in the middle which -- if you miss it -- you'll try to interpret this as a sentence. Technical fail, fyi.