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- "Mereka adalah pasangan suami…
"Mereka adalah pasangan suami dan istri."
Translation:They are a couple of husband and wife.
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In everyday speech does one always include "pasangan," or would it be okay to say "Mereka adalah suami dan istri?"
They are a couple, husband and wife. Or A couple is a husband and a wife.
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The English sentence structure doesn’t sound right. It’s ok to say “a couple of things” but not “a couple of husband and wife”.
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The English should be "They are a couple, husband and wife." Saying "they are a couple of husband and wife" implies two husbands and one wife.
The english in Duolingo is often terrible and structurally wrong.
The translation here shows "They are a couple of husband and wife.", but the correct answer shown on the previous screen was "They are couple of husband and wife."
I hope "They are husband and wife." will be correct, too.
English translation is incorrect - 'this couple is husband and wife' would make more sense
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There are a lot of alternative translations in these comments but I think the best is:
"They are a husband and wife couple."
This matches the Indonesian sentence well because in the original sentence, "suami dan istri" can act as an adjective modifying "pasangan".
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"They are a couple, husband and wife"??? In other words, they're together but also married. Is that an acceptable gloss?
Doesnt translate well into english this one. How is this said in another way in indonesian?
As has been noted before, English is incorrect.
More appropriate is: They are a married couple. They are husband and wife.
