"पक्षी उड़ सकते हैं लेकिन तैर नहीं सकते।"
Translation:Birds can fly but can not swim.
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This answer "Birds can fly but can not swim" is quite unnatural. How about "Birds can fly but not swim"?
I think the translation is fine, except for "can not" (which should be "cannot").
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I think it's fine too, though someone might want to have a word with the ducks (swans, geese, gannets, puffins etc).
I had my answer rejected for writing "Birds can fly but they cannot swim"! From Oxford dictionary: "Both cannot and can not are acceptable spellings, but the first is much more usual." It seems like there are a lot of these types of errors in the Hindi Duolingo, but not in other languages like Spanish and French -- would be great to get them corrected!
I had the same. I think it's incorrect because "they" isn't technically in the Hindu sentence.
"Birds can fly but not swim" was marked wrong. (I have taught English, I know it is correct) Instead of trying to teach literal translation in bad English (no one says "can not" - even in India as far as I know - it is cannot), it would be more helpful if they also got the English usage right.
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I had the same, and it is annoying that it is not accepted - as if the real mistakes I make wouldn´t be enough ...
The English translations aren't entirely natural or economical to the way some English people speak.
"Cannot" is perfectly correct! Why does Duolingo point out that I missed a space between "can" and "not"?
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I put "Birds can fly but they can not swim" and it was marked wrong? Surely this is the same thing?
Looks like the little Duolingo bird doesn't count penguins or ducks as birds. Family problems dude?
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this lesson is written by a Hindi speaker who is incompetent in English. The proper answer has "cannot," not "can not." Your answer is just wrong.
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Every exercise in this lesson was written incorrectly by a Hindi speaker who does not know that "cannot" is one word. So annoying and depressing that Duolingo is so consistently wrong about this.
"Birds can fly but cannot swim" is shown as wrong because I used 'cannot' without splitting it as 'can' and 'not' !
The Englisg translation should be Birds can fly but not swim. The second 'can' is implicit. I was marked wrong when my sentence was correct in English. Please correct these faults, Duo.
To say that birds 'can not' swim means they are capable of 'not' swimming. Surely, that is not an accurate translation?
Is anyone able to clarify this? I get it wrong every time by putting nahin tair sakte!
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If I recall correctly, someone said sakna has two meanings: 1. Being capable of doing sth like "most birds have the capability to fly" and 2. Having favorable circumstances like "seeing a rainbow". If denied "nahin" 1. follows or 2. precedes the stem. Is that correct?
Why can't i traduce cannot in this case ? Why do you only accept can not... In english or american, cannot is accepted...
Is it incorrect to put the "नहीं" before the "तैर" instead of after, or is this just a mistake on Duolingo's part?
