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"I am sleepy. And you, how are you?"
Translation:أَنا نَعْسانة وَأَنْتِ كَيْفِك؟
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The gender for "أنا" is not established in this sentence. Therefore (أَنا نَعْسان وَأَنْتِ كَيْفِك؟) should also be correct.
Indeed, there's no way to know what is the speaker's gender, therefore both answers are correct.
Yet it is still marking the first option wrong on 12 Dec 2020. I would be very angry if I'd paid for duolingo given the huge number of proofing errors in this whole module...
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In Standard Arabic, كَيْفَ kaifa is always كَيْفَ. It will never change whatever the case is, cannot be "kaifi", "kaifu" or other variants if any.
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In English this word doesn't define which gender is the speaker and neither the interlocutor. So both Arabic answers should be correct... come on Duolingo, Please!
Is the grammatical rule for feminine adjectives on this scale not different? I.e. جوعان is جوعى when feminine like كسلان is كسلى when feminine?
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Hmmm. That's certainly what Wiktionary says [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86#Arabic]
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Wow. I got really screwed in this lesson. In the other multiple choice that had two genders I answered as if female and got it wrong so this time I went for male and got it wrong again. This is the first time I have been really annoyed at this course. This whole unit is awful including their horrible translation of "yalla" as all right which it doesn't mean and with them disallowing the spelling as "all right" as well. Seriously, this whole unit should be tossed in the garbage.
It's not clear why only the feminine adjective for "sleepy" (i.e. the answer with the taa marbuta) is accepted. The gender of the speaker is not specified in the question, nor can it be intuited from the context.
It looks to me as if the exercises in this lesson assume the speaker is always the same sex as the addressee. At least following that rule seems to avoid these annoying "wrong answers"...
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I luckily got it right. But I do hope the hundreds who were marked wrong because of the gender have all reported it?
Someone please tell me where this kind of Arabic is from? (My guess is that it isan Egyptian dialect. ) Thanks. .شكرا
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Daniel543841,
It is not 100% MSA and is not 100% Dialect either. They mix up between MSA and some Dialects. To be noted that Egyptian Dialect does not use كيفك but ازيك -as far as I know.
It is my pleasure to answer your good question :) عفوا.
I agree 100% with the previous comment—that is why I am not repeating it. Are you so much for sexual segregation that, in your universe, only women speak to women, and men to men???
