"The spider drinks water."

Translation: La araña bebe agua.

[Congrim]

Finally - the spider managed to eat the whole bread, now it has to drink.

[Eirajea]

Lol

[andreeaCovaciu]

Looool

[PrincessHa9]

Lol

[El-Gringo]

I was taught that when a feminine noun begins with A you are not to put the feminine article "la" in front but the masculine article "el" even though the gender of the word is still feminine.

[rspreng]

Only if the feminine noun is stressed on the first syllable, like agua.

[nikitashaxoxo]

So is agua normally feminine? When you want to write the water, however, you use el?

[evyatar_lavian]

what does it mean "stressed on the first syllable"??..
Thanks,
Evyatar

[rspreng]

The word is accented on the first syllable. AH-gua, Arena (sand) is feminine and pronounced a-RE-na and is la arena

[starbuck32123]

Thought spiders drank the blood of the insects that flew unwittingly into their webs. Turns out Duolingo makes Pixar movies in their free time.

[puzzlepeas]

Lol

[devotedtothemax]

I hope it fell in the water... I hate spiders...

[PriscillaB671488]

Lol

[leonmunandar]

Careful! You might drink it. Ew!

[bonbonaj3]

The spiders that live in my yard eat cockroaches. I'd rather have spiders.

[MaiDuc]

Spiders don't drink water. It's Spider-Man

[A.k.s.h.]

Araña-hombre bebe agua

[i_Hate_Duol1ngo]

They should have taught a little more about the spider...

[stupidbanana]

i'm confused because it says one of the translations for spider is "diablo" so i put el diablo bebes agua. why is this incorrect?

[jacobcg89]

"El diablo bebes agua" is incorrect because "bebes" translates to "you drink". The correct sentence is "el diablo bebe (it drinks) agua"

[Tagsharui]

Diablo is devil

[laurynnwaeze]

Since when did 'toma' come into the equation. Is that for animals then?

[MizzisJai6]

Why did it tell me come was wrong?? It says i should've used toma. What??

[salilthestreaker]

Itsy bitsy spider

[lucie260200]

How do i know when to use ' bebe' and 'beben' ???

[DeniseIena]

You have to use
BEBEN with ustedes/ellos/ellas;
BEBE with usted/él/ella.

[Adrian9701]

la arana bebe agua

[junaidnahvi]

When do we use beben ? And when bebe ?

[yazali1]

Beben with (ellos /ellas /ustedes )
Bebe with (ella /el /usted )

[jessechap]

how does one get accent above the n

[david.benj]

On mobile usely hold down the letter and it will show. I dont know about pc :s

[consectatu]

Ellos, Ustedes - beben
El, ella - bebe

[JahiraPage]

I dont have the n with the swiggly line over it!!♥♡★☆■□●○◆◇

[bob.marquis]

You may have to load Spanish to the keyboard

[CsabaGombo]

I wish to see That!!!☺

[shelbydm94]

Diablo?

[stupidbanana]

Yeah I know it translates to devil, but for some reason it said a translation of spider was diablo. I don't know what's up with that, may just have been a mess up

[moongirl9]

It was a typo!

[Jaswanth_Ayrus]

there should be el before a word starting with 'a'
was the rule i've seen before...
doesn't that applies here for araña???
thank you

[AmyEvon]

Hahaha. Someone doesn't like spiders!

FYI: "diablo" is a translation of "devil," not "spider." Someone is just being silly.

[realechuzita]

Why is "diablo" listed as a translation?

[Notorious791]

So.... The spider and devil are the same?

[ctvnews]

Any tricks on how to remember which form of "bebe" to use?

[AlanLiu]

as a noun starts with 'a', shouldnt arana go with el instead of la? i thought it's a rule. maybe arana is an exception?

[TinaMarieElrod]

How do we know what words are considered feminine and what words are considered masculine?

[MayaB1226]

This was a multiple choice question for me -- the other two choices were "la araña bebe mujer" and "la araña bebe niña." I believe that would translate to "the spider drinks a woman" and "the spider drinks a girl", respectively, which I found extremely...weird.

[Koolkatia04]

So this is what happens when the itsy-bitsy spider was washed out by the rain...

[TudorOG]

haha one of the choices is the spider drank the kid

[m.sh.baran]

I wrote "la araña bebe 'el' agua" and duolingo said it's not correct!!why??!

[OxySean]

Oops. Accidentally wrote "the" instead of "la"

[Nadeemsrwr]

How do i know/decide which is feminine and which is masculine???

[Hanna367304]

Nasty spiders...