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- "She walks around."
"She walks around."
Translation:Ella camina alrededor.
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Indeed, this is wrong on Duolingo's part. "Ella camina alrededor" means "She walks around __"; without filling in that blank the thought is incomplete. To get an accurate translation you'd have to change the sentence structure quite a bit with something like "Ella va caminando por ahí". The issue with "andar" is that it doesn't necessarily imply "walking" as much as general moving or going. Also, "Ella anda" is likewise an incomplete thought as it doesn't give enough information about what's going on.
Circa means around or near. It is used in the scientific literature to express that, although the certainty necessary to provide a unique value is lacking, other reliable data exist that allow to assure that the fact or data that is communicated in the text occurred at a moment -or had a Value-anterior or posterior to that cited in the reference scale used, but always relatively close to the one that is transcribed.
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"Ella da vueltas" was marked wrong. Do any Spanish speakers know if i should report it? ...or is that really wrong?
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Dar vuelatas- plural- is to go in circles. "Dar una vuelta" -singular- is to take a stroll or to "walk around"
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I have given the right answer but it is rejected and I can't leave the question screen without quitting the whole set Any ideas, por favor?
I presume you might have been thinking along the lines of "She walks about" (which sounds more British to my Usanian ears). Would I be correct in that presumption?
To my knowledge, "Ella camina acerca" doesn't really make any sense. The adverb acerca (de) is somewhat equivalent to the English "about", as in "pertaining to". It does not work for "about" as in "Walking about".
I hope this helps!
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Usanian! What a great word. First time I've seen it. If only Spanish speakers would adopt usanio/a instead of estadounidense
I like the word too! I first learned about the idea from the Esperanto word "Usono" (United States), which came from a proposed English word "Usona". "Usona" gave birth to a more modern "Usonia", but that one also refers to architecture, so I elected for "Usania" (sometimes stylized "USAnia") instead for precision.