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- "They wrote a song for me."
"They wrote a song for me."
Translation:Ellas escribieron una canción para mí.
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Hmm. Not sure - whether it is or if it is why? Perhaps ambiguity w/o other info - eg maybe ustedes. Also does the "for me" require para? Not sure about that. They wrote [to] me a song seemsbok really. Be interested to see other thoughts.
That's correct, though a slightly different construction. What you wrote is "they wrote a song to me" or "they wrote (to) me a song." Either should be close enough to the English to be acceptable.
If you really want to say "for me" in the sense of a song dedicated to me, I believe that would use "por" and not "para." So, the use of "para" seems to indicate that the song was directed/gifted to me and not written on my behalf.
I believe "para" is actually correct here as you are denoting yourself as a recipient - which is one of the uses of "para" rather than "por"
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Yes. That is what David is saying. Using 'para' means the song is a gift to the person. Using 'por' would mean the song was written on that person's behalf. Both words have a slightly different meaning and both would work here because the English does not differentiate between the two.
usually from context but in this case ellos or ellas are correct if it doesn't make sense in context then you wouldn't know because they are conjugated the same
"Me" is used when you are the direct object of a verb (Ex. "Ellos me escribieron una canción.")
When you are the indirect object following a proposition, like para, then you use "mi" (Ex. "Ellos escribieron una canción para mi.")
So your answer was marked wrong because it had an unrelated error, not because "ellos" isn't acceptable.
You also missed the first N in canción, but I'm not sure if that's a big enough typo to get marked wrong.
I regularly switch the pronoun or noun gender in my answers. Duo accepts them unless I make a mistake elsewhere.
It is impossible to continue...it keep saying it is wrong but it is wright
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Bernardo, next time, if you want help, please tell us exactly what your wright answer was so we can have a look at it. Copy-paste if possible. It is very common to make little mistakes that are very hard to spot.
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I used "ellos" and the answer was given as "ellas". You'd need to be psychic to get that right!
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the answer was given as "ellas"
You have been in Duolingo for a while, right? So you should know by now that the "correct answer" it presents is just one of many.
Perder mi tiempo atendiendo a las preferencias irracionales de un robot búho (sobre puntos sin importancia: la elección de un pronombre - "ellos" masculino o "ellas" femenino) resta del valor de DuoLino como una herramienta para aprender español y sugiere cierta pereza en la parte de sus programadores.
