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- "तुम दवाई खाते हो ।"
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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.
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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?
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).
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'.
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".
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."
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'take' still not accepted (as of 2020-03-04) Very frustrating :( Otherwise very happy with this course
This is a question about the English language. It has nothing to do with India's traditional Ayurveda.
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.
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.
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.
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Probably that was recreational though.
Some people like to eat cannabis products, but if it's medicinal it's 'taken'.
For high blood pressure I ate spinach, beetroot, garlic, almonds, bananas and a few other things for a few weeks and now I don't have high blood pressure.
Medical/Nutritional advice aside, those foods aren't considered medicine, at least not in the English speaking world.
Here is a medical doctor...I have never advised my patients to eat their medicine.
A few weeks? Actual high blood pressure would take months or years to fix via diet and exercise...not to mention that we don't consider eating healthy to be a medicine so much as a lifestyle change.
Let's leave the medical advice to the certified healthcare professionals, why don't we? Clearly you don't have hypertension, you had just an isolated episode of high pressure.
