"Those English gentlemen don't ever speak in Spanish."
Translation:Esos señores ingleses no hablan nunca en español.
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Wondering why "Aquellos senores ingleses no hablan nunca en espanol" is wrong??? Can anyone help?
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Hi. Do you know how to form the "tilde" with your keyboard? Whether using a laptop or connected by mobile device, a person can change their keyboard to a Spanish one.
""señores""
""español""
As an aside...
I learned that ""no nunca"" (together, like that) translates into ""never ever"", in English.
So, the following sentence is what we get:
- ""Aquellos señores ingleses no nunca hablan en español.""
""Those English gentlemen never ever speak in Spanish.""
NOTE:
""...no hablan nunca"" translates into...
""...[they] never speak""
I wrote "aquellos" too. It is still marked as wrong, which it is not. I reported it as "my answer should be excepted".
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A relative of mine (a man) was writing (in Spanish) to a woman, recently, and she paid him a compliment by writing back and saying...
"Eres un buen caballero."
(You are a good gentleman.)
can someone explain why senores ingleses are not considered a definite masculine noun and therefore eses instead of esos which is for gender uncertainty?
I lose a heart for using Estos instead of Esos? Nothing else wrong with the sentence. So I lose a heart for what amounts to a typo. Gee, thanks.
I know. Sometimes you get given it despite a single typo and sometimes a single typo gets you a whacking. It's the inconsistency I find infuriating.
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It depends on the typo. If it's a genuine typo like 'Esqos' or 'Esot' you usually get away with it but if your typo makes a genuine word in the given language eg. 'Esos Estos' you won't.
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I often get an answer wrong because I got estos/esos or estas/esas mixed up again ... and again. I know better if I really think about it, but I still often do those wrong. But I know that I didn't make a typo, that I really did translate it incorrectly, so I know that Duolingo was right to mark me wrong and correct me.
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"this" and "these" have "t's" (esta/estas). "That" and "those", don't. (Esa/esas). Someone put up a link on Spanishdict website. Don't remember the site exactly, but the saying stuck. If anyone knows the page I'm referring to, please post it.
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They are trying to get us hung up, and it's a dirty trick. Petty, very petty.
