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I wrote the exact same thing and was also marked wrong. As near as I can guess, I think Duo is expecting both verbs to be in the simple present ("learn") or both verbs to be in the present progressive ("are learning"). I think the engine isn't designed to handle mixing up the two tenses within the same sentence
"You and I are learning, we learn." This is copy/paste from the answer I put, and it was marked as wrong. Same problem here.
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If there is no continuous aspect, then "You and I learn" should be as correct as "You and I are learning. Most of the time, if I answer with "I learn" or "You learn" Duo says it's correct and adds that another correct answer is "I am learning" or "You are learning." This tells me that both are acceptable because German lacks the continuous aspect. To all of a sudden require a specific answer when both answers are acceptable up to this point, seems like an error on Duo's part. Either there is a continuous aspect or there is not. If there's a rule that a sentence cannot mix "learning" and "are learning" then that needs to be clarified. Even then, technically, this is two independent sentences separated by a semicolon because they are related. It would be just as valid to use a period instead of a semicolon. If in that case, "are learning" and "learn" are interchangeable, is there a reason why German treats the continuous aspect differently in the case where a semicolon is used?
"Me" is wrong. Look at it as two separate sentences:"You are learning." OK .
"I am learning." OK:
You would NOT say: 'Me is learning'.
You would say: " I am learning. " So, "You and I are learning."
Me can learn? No. Me is learning? No. Me is objective. A SUBJECTIVE pronoun is called for.
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I put "You and I learn; we are learning," a little more nuanced than just requiring the verbs to be in the same tense. But was told it was wrong. We're both right. Must move on.
Can someone please explain to my why it is not "Du und ich lernt; wir lernen" or perhaps "Du und ich lerne; wir lernen' ? why is the infinitive used?
It is plural. "Lernen" here is used as the plural verb with "you and I = plural. It just happens to be the same as the infinitive.
Just like in English you use the plural form of the verb (same as infinitive) when you have a plural subject. Hence "You and I are learning" instead of "You and I is learning."
it is "Lernen" because that's the conjugation for the first plural (we). "You and I" = We. "we learn" = "Wir lernen"
Duo needs to better understand what the present tense is in English. I learn, you learn, he she or it learns, we learn, they learn. I shouldn't be marked incorrect for "we learn".
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Duo wants you to translate it like that! Was this translation not accepted? Then we have a big problem. Please report it next time (error report).
The sentence told me that the correct translation was "You and I are learning, we are learning." But the question was formatted with the list of words and you construct the sentence by tapping the words. But there was only one instance of the word "are" in the list. I physically could not make that sentence work because I didn't have the option.
There are several posts on this needing to be fixed. The frustrating thing is that you can't get past it and you can't complete the session. Annoying!
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No, lernen is not the conjugated form of ich. "you and I" is "we". Ich lerne, du lernst, wir lernen.
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There are way too many faults in this course. "You and I learn" is 100% correct and yet, it is marked wrong?
