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"Eu acho que é melhor que esperemos mais trinta minutos."
Translation:I think that it is better for us to wait another thirty minutes.
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Onze meses passaram e Duolingo não fez NADA. Estou desapontado e chateado, mas pelo menos consigo me expressar em português.
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Yes, I hear that too. Not in the slow version, but in the "normal" speed the "a" is there.
" I think it is better if we wait another thirty minutes." is marked as wrong. I have reported it. Am I right?
Maybe it is about the word "THAT" that you had left out of your translation? .
If you mean the reason DL might reject the answer, it could be--but rejecting "I think it is better if we wait..." would be wrong. Native English-speakers often omit "that" in cases like this--in fact, including it here sounds more formal than most of us would be in everyday speech.
I don't like using "if" here. That is "melhor se esperarmos"
The best translation, I think is: "it's better for us to wait"
I think it is better to wait another thirty minutes. Accepted WOW. 12/4/2020. Suprised. No "for us" or we.
You certainly are right--in fact, your translation is much better. It hardly is a literal one, but DL exercises include, and sometimes require (even though they shouldn't), a more natural-sounding, non-literal translation.
"more than" is "mais (do) que"
- Mais trinta minutos = thirty more minutes
- Mais que trinta minutos = more than thirty minutes
I think it's better is translated Eu acho que e melhor. In another exercise it was translated Eu acho melhor que... Is this interchangable or are there subtle differences I don't see?
Would it also be correct to say "para que"? In general, when should one put "para" before "que" when there is "for" in the English translation? And vice versa, when there is just "que" when would it be OK in English to put in a "for"?
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"it think it would be better if we waited thirty more minutes" is also correct.
The problem with this sentence is there are too many options. It's impossible to figure out which one duolingo wants.
In the dictionary mais is not translated as another is: outro,um outro, outra pessoa, mais um, basically referring to people. Based on this I think that : thirty minutes more is correct. In some special situation another can be related to things like: "that's quite another thing" but it is actually meaning that two things are quite different. Como sempre as suas explicações são muito apreciadas.
I put "I think it's better for us to wait thirty minutes", and Duolingo says I need to add "more" or "another" somewhere (i.e. "thirty minutes more", "another thirty minutes"). I guess this is a more literal translation, but I don't think that extra word is necessary? It's not like it's ambiguous what the sentence means, and (in English, not sure about Portuguese) it'd be more usual to leave it out.
I think more / another is required because the Portuguese sentence has the word "mais" in it. If "mais" wasn't there, then I imagine "I think it's better for us to wait thirty minutes" would be accepted.
Then again, I put "I think it's better for us to wait thirty more minutes" and Duolingo didn't accept it since I wrote "for us to wait" instead of "if we wait", so maybe not. I used the feedback tool to tell the Duolingo staff that my answer should be accepted.
I just added a positive to offset someone's negative response to your valid question.
Anyway, I think that "more" or "another" is necessary. There's a difference between waiting thirty minutes and then waiting for thirty minutes more. Imagine that you have (already) been waiting thirty minutes and you decide to wait "thirty minutes more". In total, you will have waited for an hour.
In portuguese it is not wrong. Maybe they have been waiting for some time and now they have to be waiting for more thiry minutes...
Oh, I didn't mean to suggest it was wrong - it's just that Duolingo marks your translation into English wrong if you leave out the "more" or "another", and I didn't think that was necessary. Maybe I was irritated at losing yet another heart with an acceptably close (to me!) translation :p
