"Estos chorizos son muy caros."
Translation:These chorizos are very expensive.
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Why not ? these chorizos are very expensive. Duo says: This chorizo is very expensive
You yourself put it in PLURAL! and then when i do it, you say it should be SINGULAR, complete nonsense!
En España la salchicha y el chorizo son completamente diferentes.Tenemos diferentes variedades de chorizo. De salchicha tenemos alguna variedad, pero si se va a un restaurante especializados en salchichas hay también mucha variedad
Salchichas are made as the German bratwurst. Chorizo has more or less the same ingredients but adding a lot of Spanish paprika (pimenton) that colour it in red
DL it's too hot for this stupidity. How do 'these sausages' become 'this sausage'.
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It is accepting "these sausages" now. In fact, it's now the default, preferred answer, so I guess they were listening.
Does someone know if there is a difference between "chorizo" and "salchicha", or do they mean the same thing?
Salchicha and chorizo have different tastes, I'm not sure how they are made, but you can distinguish as the first is thinner and the colour is like skin.
The difference might be paprika.. That is the predominant spice in a chorizo..
So I was marked down for "These sausage are very expensive" - may be because I am English but it I walked up to a pile of expensive sausage that's what i would say. But I guess duo wants a literal translation.
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I think you need to make that plural or singular. "This sausage is very expensive" or "These sausages are very expensive"
My Spanish teacher in college always used mnemonics for stuff like this. For this/that and these/those, she said "This and these have Ts" and it's a little rhyme that's stuck in my head for several years now.
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Estas and estos both mean these, not those. They are just the feminine and masculine forms. The singular forms mean this. Esas and esos mean those. The singular forms mean that. You can find a fuller explanation here: https://www.spanishdict.com/guide/demonstrative-adjectives-in-spanish
You probably getting confused by the plural and the singular of "este","esto", and "esta",while like English,most Spanish is made plural by adding a "s" to the end; this is not true for "este" and "esto" there is no "estes"(at least that my understanding but there's an "estés" wich is conjugation of "estar" a different word) . "Estos" is the plural of both "este" and "esto". This i believe is also true for "eso" and "ese"(wich are both translated to "that" in English farther a way from the speaker then "those") there is no " eses". As another person mentioned you do have to watch out for Male and female but it more complicated than that.
Costly and expensive are synonymous and should be accepted. I have reported the same thing many times, but still Duo does not accept it
I am posting out of curiosity, not complaining. I never heard of a chorizo, and I'm older than dirt. I found it very surprising that it would be a crossover word here. Are there places in the U.S. where that word is used frequently?
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It might be a bit of a foodie word in the U.S. I'm in Canada. You'd certainly find chorizo sausage at a Portuguese or Spanish restaurant. Probably also in specialty food stores and a good deli at a supermarket. You often see it as an ingredient in various recipes on menus and in cookbooks. I really enjoy chorizo and will almost always order a dish at a restaurant if it has chorizo in it, but I enjoy spicy food.