"تِلْفازي في أَسَدي."

Translation: My television is in my lion.

[Tnfalpha]

That's were I keep all my televisions

[Szaf16]

The comment sections were empty hence this act.
See, now everyone is having a blast. :)

[friendlynaveed]

Well, if I keep a lion in my house then anything is possible. It could be that I am calling out to my family:

انا في اسدي. I am in my lion

Help me ;-)

[Thurayayehia]

Guys I am an Arabic and I don't understand this word ( :

[AfrozaMehz]

Hahaha

[Slitinsky]

This is a cultural thing. Only lions can understand.

[amins2s]

Rich Arabs.. feeding their lions tellies.

[Aiman167337]

Might be those old tube style. Gotta get rid of them somehow.

[headchop]

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.

[obado]

Even better, the strangeness may help people to remember it

[Foblin]

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

[Lafillenuc]

Yes that's what I was thinking

[MitjaSaje]

This is a very good argument and besides you can much easier remember a foolish sentence than a dull one.

[Shayan2029]

Wasn't it better to be both grammatically correct and also practical?

[GeoffreyHa61650]

I totally agree

[GeoffreyHa61650]

I think that a language program should be capable of testing comprehension using sensible phrases, this is just a stupid sentence

[Foblin]

I disagree.

[Wolfo_YT]

A Normal Day In Soviet Russia

[RobertEddy]

Rather odd place to be putting it.

[Aiman167337]

I think he's lion about that. Tat, tat.

[claire.amira]

Haha ❤️

[NuhaNabila3]

Its so funny, lion in the house

[Nour_Alhud]

Whaaat

[Salsmachev]

I know that weird sentences are kind of Duolingo's thing, but I think when they get this surreal the weirdness is actually counterproductive.

[philosomedic]

ما معنى هذه الجملة العجيبة!؟

[Rafi3M]

عجيبة أو غريبة؟

[Youssefii3]

غريبة.

[RayyanSheh2]

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.

[obado]

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?

[imnotbisan]

This is the best and probably the only reasonable narrative

[Foblin]

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...

[reenay13]

Clearly!!

[cjmeyer96]

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

[GloriaGudalupe]

تِلْفازي في أَشذي THIS IS WHAT THEY WANTED TO SAY: 'ON' NOT LION!!!!!! A MISTAKE IN THE DOTS

[LeilaKhalid]

how does that make any more sense than the lion?

[deactivated user]

Very Odd

[wsa3]

لول

[ShainyPeys]

Is that Arabic for LOL?

[Fremmer]

Yea!

[phoebe.lim]

عادي

[Adel562161]

This is hilarious. Keeps you on your toes when translating. "Does that mean... What I think it means?"

[GalitSchwa]

Inconceivable!

[Foblin]

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?

[NickJParkinson]

This is so ridiculous

[fekundulo]

That should teach you not to watch television.

[Eldogwhy]

Seems wrong. I think it's a mistake

[LRVU1]

Correct way to keep a television

[YasminMull6]

Maybe the lion was watching lion King and was trying to protect simba and ate the TV

[FursaFarfasha]

I questioned my knowledge of arabic and answered My lion is on my tv
This is so ridiculous.

[SilviaMars11]

Me too!!

[Ina589468]

In his mouth or in his bud, that's what I am wondering.

[FennVector]

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

[KatharinaM882088]

This sentence may be nonsense, but makes me smile. Something unexpected after the many sometimes monotonous sentences.

[DeddyShy1]

Steven Universe, is that you?

[NaamaGlauber]

I was so surprised from this sentence, that I missed the 'is' and failed..

[SamF74]

Was gonna explain but you guys hit it already

[YasminMull6]

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!

[panglossa]

[Foblin]

LOL. Yes, Steven Universe can certainly say that in that picture! clap clap Very clever! LOL

[Fremmer]

Yo man! how many languages?!

[Ruby350339]

It makes it more challenging because it doesnt make sense, it is a good test for us. And also makes us laugh. Cheers duolingo

[PiyushJoshi93]

H..how? Just how??

[jess.lewto]

But why

[ToxicD.VAM]

A normal day

[Sikeryali]

Why all the comments from 'tsuj1g1r1', are getting deleted here?

[Ariel_Horn]

The lion must have eaten the television.

[YasminMull6]

Very smart looking out of the box

[Shayan2029]

Meantime in a parallel universe...

[AchwaqKhalid]

Lul whuuuut

[Brunellire1]

Poor lion. He was very hungry.

[JaimeMartn1234]

Is keeping televisions in lions a thing in the Arab world?

[prero]

Reboot the lion!

[Fatiat13]

Are you kidding me? I was like "my television is in my lion" would be wrong so i answered "my lion is in my television". Surprisingly i got that wrong. Lol...

[yession]

what sense does this make? Is it a unique arabic saying?

[tsuj1g1r1]

No.

[AyuubMoham2]

Logically, it doesn't make any sense but it is grammatically correct. I feel like they chose that sentence because it wouldn't be easy to guess it.

[Malvazija]

Duo,how were the magic mushrooms you had for breakfast?How about:
My elephant ate a refrigerator and my cow is chewing on my computer:)

[Foblin]

LOL And there is no need to resort only to mammals with eating disorders on appliances. I'd like to see here "Yesterday I spent the whole day naming every single hair in my moustache".

[shaklum]

Only if you're on a Safari in Africa.

[RobertEddy]

And, of course, safari itself is one of the many loan words from Arabic into Swahili.