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"What does the fox say?"
Translation:Co říká liška?
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I have done this exercise before but now i realise that the noun liska is not written in the accusative . Is it because it is a question?
Ta liška = the fox. Liška = a fox. Does this sentence actually ask "What does A fox say?" "The" was not an option.
I think "ta" was omitted in the main translation because "the fox" in question here is not talking about a specific fox but instead "the fox" as a concept/species. E.g., Dog goes woof, ducks say quack, but what does the fox say?
Or it can be the only specific fox around. If it s a story about a fox, we know which fox is "the fox".
In the Czech-to-English exercise, "What does A fox say?" is also accepted. In this exercise, options both with and without ta are accepted. If you mean that there was no word bank tile for ta here, it is likely because ta is not included in the main translation, which is the one shown at the top of the page. In a "real world" scenario, whether the speaker means "a fox" or "the fox" could be derived from the context.
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In fact, the Czech sentence means both. On the other hand, I can hardly imagine any situation I would ask "What does say A (whoever)?"
A dog says "woof," a cat says "meow," a sheep says "baaaa"... at least, that's what they say in English. So now... "What does a fox say?" :-)
You would use "co to říká" if you did not hear it properly or you were astonished by the content and want to repeat it.
I added it as a possibility here.
Not sure I understand your question, but... The hints are not 100 percent reliable for every sentence, because they often include options that are appropriate in a different context. This is one of those cases.
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I have had exercises where ,in my answer I have omitted writing the the translation in czech and gotten it wrong. IN this case the in the fox is not in the answer. instead of ta liska ther is only liska and so I had wanted o know what teh czech answer be if the the translation was a part of the answer. Co rika ta liska??
It is about on the level of "What are you talking?", a head scratcher because both verbs only take a very limited set of direct objects that do not even fully match between the two languages, like "talk nonsense" and "mluvit pravdu".
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Thanks! I get it now, I think. It's just that in Polish "mówić" is the only verb used in this situation so, as usually, I assumed it would be the same in Czech.
There is no established sound for children, like haf for dogs or mňau for cats, if you are asking for that.
