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Topic: Spanish

"The animals are distinct."

Translation:Los animales son distintos.

5 years ago

18 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/thepkl
thepkl
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I might have said that one animal was distinctive over another animal, but as a group I would have said they are different.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Iago
Iago
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Distinct and different (but not distinctive) are synonyms.

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/miroslav729599
miroslav729599
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What is the difference between distinto y distinta

4 months ago
https://www.duolingo.com/David382068
David382068
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Distinto is masculine while distinta is feminine.

3 months ago
https://www.duolingo.com/mombrell
mombrell
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I thought that distinto means different. In this sentence it meant distinct?

5 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/widercampos
widercampos
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'Distinto' means both 'distinct' and 'different'.

4 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/kiraya04
kiraya04
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Well, animals are not distinct...

1 year ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Jamhan
Jamhan
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Why 'distintos' and not 'distintes'?

4 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/widercampos
widercampos
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Because it is 'distintos'. Some adjectives/nouns are finished in 'te' and does not vary in gender. But it's not the case here, the word simply is like that.

4 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Jamhan
Jamhan
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Gracias!

4 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/littlemsdiablita
littlemsdiablita
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I wondered the same thing. I wrote it with an '-es' instead of '-o' & was wondering how to tell which one you're supposed to use.

3 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Clayton509126
Clayton509126
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Would mascotas be accepted? Or does mascotas mean wild animals?

1 year ago
https://www.duolingo.com/nathanchan31
nathanchan31
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I put "Los animales son diferentes", and duolingo accepted it.

1 year ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Cheol-Hwan
Cheol-Hwan
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Animal is masculine?

5 months ago
https://www.duolingo.com/Duo2355
Duo2355
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Si

5 months ago
https://www.duolingo.com/yourinspec
yourinspec
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Los animales son diferente

5 months ago
https://www.duolingo.com/XeyesX79
XeyesX79
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SD75my74

4 months ago
https://www.duolingo.com/419boss
419bossPlus
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what the difference between all 3 of them

4 months ago
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