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An apple and a book, NOT (as the "corrected" response says: An apple and abook (sic) !!!
Please, don't report the bug here, but in the report window, under the exercise page. The course creator will see it if you send it with the report window, but not here.
Anyway, maybe some Hindi speaker people use this app to learn English, and could take the correction as proper English.
Aur. Because the "o" and the "au" are different.
"o" is closed o:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel
"au" is "ɔ" in IPA, open o:
Americans don't distinguish between the vowel in dog and the vowel in law
Although I suppose that doesn't necessarily matter since the vowel in "or" is different from those
Same they write "ai" as [æ]~[ε]
This also applies in names, so be careful how you say the name of an Indian.
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So strange how aur is a cognate of or in English, or of other similar variants in Indo-European languages (o, ori, ou, oder, etc.), but it means and :)
Most native Hindi speakers that I speak with use पुस्तक(Pustak) instead of किताब (Kitab) for book. But I see किताब used more in Bollywood movies.
Is it ok to use पुस्तकinstead? From what I understand किताब is an Arabic word, and is falling out of style. At Least that's what it seemed like when I spoke with native Hindi speakers.
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Lol both of them are absolutely fine. People generally don't even use pustak aur kitaab, they just say book. But nobody would find it weird if yoi say either one of them
Maybe but the is used when you already have some information on that subject ☺️
I do not think this is actually true since it does not have the indicative word for 'one', though it could conceivably be 'a', 'an' or 'the'. If it had the word, "aek" in Hindi, then it would definitely be a, an, or one.
स+ ए= सेब क+ इ = कि (ki) त+ आ=ता Ki as in kilometres Ta by sliding your tongue by the teeth B as in ball किताब
