"تِلْفازي في أَسَدي."
Translation:My television is in my lion.
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There seem to be a lot of complaints about this sentence. But does it really matter if it seems strange or silly? If it's grammatically correct, then it's just testing your comprehension. This is arguably better than something more obvious, like 'living room', where you can simply guess the correct answer.
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Actually this is one of the few sentences in this course that I truly know by heart. Sometimes it pops in my brain out of the blue! =D
This is a very good argument and besides you can much easier remember a foolish sentence than a dull one.
I think that a language program should be capable of testing comprehension using sensible phrases, this is just a stupid sentence
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I disagree.
When I learnt English I occasionally came across unusual or wacky sentences and / or news mainly because they also are a thing in any language. I could understand your point of view if Duolingo were feeding us mostly strange sentences but that's not the case. A few whimsical sentences are actually helpful and can spice up a bit the whole course.
perhaps the sentence was mixed up as in my lion is on TV I mean in a starring role instead of my TV is in my lion anyway no blame to the lion if he upped and swallowed that noisy TV. I personally would applaud him and besides I think that duo is pulling your leg who knows what boredom could make an owl say to get you going,
I know that weird sentences are kind of Duolingo's thing, but I think when they get this surreal the weirdness is actually counterproductive.
Oh come now looks like a lot of people had a good deal of fun with it
This sentence does not make sense,I am a native arabic speaker and im sad that this program has the worst way to learn arabic.
It does make sense, it's just a bit unusual. Imagine you are a zoo keeper and you have a television in your hut. One day the lion, who is very hungry, escapes. Sadly all he can find to eat is your television. What will you say when you discover what has happened?
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It's good indeed but not the only possible one...
I, the zoo keeper, might have made a TV-shaped meat pie for the leading lion actor in "Born Free" TV series to celebrate the Xth anniversary of its first broadcast and then feed it to the distinguished old feline...
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As a zookeeper who recently located from an English-speaking country to an Arabic-speaking country, this happens every day and this sentence has saved my life
This is hilarious. Keeps you on your toes when translating. "Does that mean... What I think it means?"
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Not really. Even if you are unable to conceive it, it's clear that it can be uttered in Arabic and that it is grammatically correct.
Besides, cannot Arabic speaking people write books for children with this sentence in?... A cartoon? A surreal poem? A fantasy film? Are all those proscribed from reality in Arabic when they use wacky sentences? What about some stories in ألف ليلة وليلة?
Maybe the lion was watching lion King and was trying to protect simba and ate the TV
Came here to suggest it was a Steven Universe reference. It only says "in my lion" because we don't know the Arabic for "in the pocket dimension contained within my lion's fur"
This sentence may be nonsense, but makes me smile. Something unexpected after the many sometimes monotonous sentences.
I questioned my knowledge of arabic and answered My lion is on my tv This is so ridiculous.
Even if it's weird or doesn't any make sense, I guess this kind of questions tests you to the max; it isn't an obvious question so you can't guess it right away. Duolingo is just trying to see if you're going to be flexible with it regardless of the sentence making sense or not
The bottom line is one doesn't need a television if one has a entertaining lion and besides the wouldn't be time to watch TV with a great big lion prowling about the house? La? La? Ha! Ha!
I was so surprised from this sentence, that I missed the 'is' and failed..
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LOL. Yes, Steven Universe can certainly say that in that picture! clap clap Very clever! LOL
It makes it more challenging because it doesnt make sense, it is a good test for us. And also makes us laugh. Cheers duolingo
I thought I am the only one who was surprised. How you do you keep your TV in your Lion?
And, of course, safari itself is one of the many loan words from Arabic into Swahili.
hahaha, I was not wrong, kind of strange, but anyway a good question. To be sure you understand well.
Really nonsense sentences! Yet no nonsense sentences when learning german...fortunately!
