"Carrie does not live in the mountains, unfortunately."
Translation:كَري لا تَسْكُن في ٱلْجَبَل لِلْأَسَف.
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Formal Arabic has VSO word order. "Lā taskunu Carrie" should be accepted. If the verb were conjugated in the plural or dual it would have to be SVO, but since the verb is singular, VSO is correct syntax.
Yes. Please report it as "my answer should have been accepted", as it's still marked wrong (Sept 2020).
I also agree, thats why I came in the the discussion section, to see if anyone thinks the same like me, btw, can anyone tell why "yaskun" will not be here??
Yes it is, but in this case, they are talking about Carrie living in the mountains in general. They aren't talking about any specific mountains. In such a situation, Arabic would use the singular where English would use the plural. In the case of a city, both languages would use the singular. Every language has its idiomatic usages :-)
I don’t understand the differences between اسكن، يسكن، تسكن and when te ending -ين is added to those verbs
اسكن = I live or I will live يسكن = He lives or He will live تسكن = You (for male) live and also She lives تسكنين = You (for female) live
Verbs are conjugated in Arabic in a way that they change in each pronoun (like Hebrew in fact).
Yes the verb ought to be at the beginning of the sentence is this case so my rrponse was correct
How on earth لا تسكن كرى فى الجبل للاسف is marked as wrong!! الجملة الفعلية should be the right format.
