"तुम दवाई खाते हो ।"
Translation:You eat medicine.
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While I can see this is a direct translation, in English one generally 'takes' medicine, so that would be a more natural translation.
In fact, I've never heard दवाई खाना as an expression either, but rather दवाई लेना. Admittedly my experience is more with Andhra Hindi.
A native Urdu speaker here learning Hindi script: I agree, inasmuch as Duolingo insists on proper English translation, eating medicine is not only improper English, I have never heard of eating medicine in either Hindi or Urdu. Lena is the verb for taking medicine.
Thanks! That was exactly what I wondered. If that's the case for most Hindi and Urdu speakers, why are we learning a sentence that makes no damn sense in either Hindustani or English?
Also native Urdu & Hindi speaker, and I have heard people say 'eat (khao) / drink (piyo) medicine' in Urdu and Hindi. Also heard 'take (lo) medicine' which, yes, is more frequently used. I wouldn't say that one is more correct over the other. But yes, agreed that in English I've only encountered 'taking medicine' not really 'eating medicine'.
This is interesting; so there would not be a difference between English and Hindi usage (and also in German, e.g., one "takes" a medicine).
Are there areas in AP where Hindi is more common than Telugu? Or by "Andhra Hindi" do you just mean the Hindi that you learned in school?
I agree. In English we normally say take, not eat, medicine. Same thing in Chinese; they say "chi yao", literally "eat medicine".
'take' still not accepted (as of 2020-03-04) Very frustrating :( Otherwise very happy with this course
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It's only partially direct translation. They changed the order of the words and translated each word but didn't make it into what English speakers say. Why the mishmash of Hindi and English instead of full English? Is the Hindi in this course also full of English traces that I can't notice?
No, they are taken with a spoon.
A lot of children's medicines in the US are taken by spoon as well, because small children can't swallow pills. The word is always "take," not "eat" or "drink."
This is a question about the English language. It has nothing to do with India's traditional Ayurveda.
Yes but when speaking about the English translation, it should not be translated literally, but translated so it makes sense to a native speaker.
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In the lifeways of English speakers we "take" medicine, we never "eat" medicine. So in this case the reflection is terrible.
Come on wake up duolingo. A translation needs to be correct in the language it’s being translated into. You do but eat medicine in English. You take medicine.
Yes! if दवाई खाना is the or a usual expression of the idea in Hindi then दवाई खाना means "take medicine. "Tengo hambre" doesn't mean " I have hunger" it means "I am hungry" . У меня книга doesn't mean "By me book". It means "I have a book." We translate meaning, not words.
I also feel that although we take medicine by mouth, we are not eating it.....
As pointed out before, eating medicine isn't correct in English, though correct in Hindi or Urdu!
There was an early 19th century autobiography called "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". So at some point it may have been correct English.
Probably that was recreational though.
Some people like to eat cannabis products, but if it's medicinal it's 'taken'.
I thought 'you eat medicine' seemed strange but then was reminded that before the modern medicine which we TAKE, we had herbs as medicine which we would drink or EAT. so the sentence then makes sense.
We would still take the medicine regardless of what shape or form it came in!
