"Pig likes watermelon."

Translation: Bisóodi chʼééhjiyáán bił yáʼátʼééh.

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Etymology

chʼééh (“in vain”) + jiyą́ (“a person eats it”) + -n- (ligature) + -í (nominalizer). -áán is a contraction of -ání.

Noun
chʼééhjiyáán

1. watermelon

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Source:

Wiktionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ch%CA%BC%C3%A9%C3%A9hjiy%C3%A1%C3%A1n

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In Navajo:

Wikiibíídiiya

https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%CA%BC%C3%A9%C3%A9hjiy%C3%A1%C3%A1n

[mason_b1]

Wow diego... how do you have 1300 day streak and like 100 cometed languages with vietnamese having 170700 XP

[mason_b1]

Just.... wow

[Rosh_win26]

Ikr....

[Jessy236739]

Why isn't "the pig likes watermelon"? Ive seen this in a couple others too. "Cow eats corn" "bear eats fish" it sounds so wrong.. sorry

[Jack105091]

Ikr

[StoniNatural]

why does Duolingo not provide the audio for these words in Navajo?

[AmperSam]

Navajo is still in beta, it may take some time to have all audio.

[iceberg202]

Does "bił yáʼátʼééh" mean likes? What is the literal translation? Yáʼátʼééh seems to mean hello or good, but I think this is my first time seeing it as part of a verb.

[VioletaVeer]

bił = with him/her/it, yá‘át‘ééh = (it) is good

It is good with him -> he likes

[PaisleyDragon]

I'm struggling with when to use "bee" or "bił". Can someone help explain the difference. Thanks.

[LeticiaTro384906]

Tje English sentence is incorrect. It should be "The pig" or "A pig."

[AmyBegay]

It's not accepting mine either and I can't advance because of it. My answer is completely identical to the given answer but it still says I'm incorrect.

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Yáʼátʼééh! This Navajo course is using a special mark called modifier letter apostrophe, very similar to the right single quotation mark (it is a different curly apostrophe, instead of the vertical apostrophe), so words as yáʼátʼééh are showed incorrect when they are written as yá’át’éét (closing quotation mark; there is a little difference with this apostrophe) or yá'át'ééh. Please, try copying the three examples in bold and paste them on the notepad, then select all and change the font to Verdana to see the differences; other fonts will show the Navajo glottal stop and the curly apostrophe as the same. The apostrophe used by Duolingo will be showed as a square dot with a curly tail.

Here are the instructions to install a Diné Bizaad keybord layout:

Installing and Using the Navajo Keyboard - NavajoNow.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIaShnHXVmQ

On Android, Multiling Keyboard can be used for Navajo.

I hope it helps!

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

I need to add a note here:

The Google keyboard (GBoard) for Android supports Navajo, but it seems to show the same problem with the apostrophe, so I think it will show a wrong answer.

[jesusinho1]

Bisóodi ch'ééhjiyáán bił yá'át'ééh works

[MariaChick1]

Does the first option ask if the pig likes watermelon and pork? That's a bit sick