"أُحِبّ أَسَدي لٰكِنّ لا أُحِبّ أَسَدها."
Translation:I love my lion but I do not love her lion.
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Excuse me but this sentence is blocked. I write it correctly, Duolingo replies it is wrong.!!!! I lost 5 hearts and all my day without advancing because of this issue. I reported it several times, nothing happened. I don't know what to do... Does anybody else have the same problem? Right answer checked like being wrong??????
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Hi ! I think I know the problem, it because of the "but" : we learned to write it لاكن, but in this sentence they do not accept like this, they want the alif on the ل :/ I don't know how to do it on my keyboard so I have to google it ("dagger alif") and copy-paste... Difficult but it's the only way ! Hope it helps you :)
Well it does teach you about grammar and does actually have verbs (which this course really could use more of)
Yeah ha ha so useful, I'll have to buy some toys that are lions (maybe from the Lion king) for the kids, and maybe just maybe this phrase could be used!
Well the word Assad (lion) is used a lot in middle east specifically Syria
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Geesecouch, doesn't the double-S make a difference? Are they still considered the same word - lion and the name Assad?
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Won't someone say whether a doubled letter makes a difference in meaning? If it does, the name Assad can't be confused with the common noun asad, can it?
This is so gonna save my life when I am on a safari in Africa! What's the words for "Yes" and "No", by the way?
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Thanks, WewaPikachu. But why does Google Translate give "Yeah" for نعم ? Is it a casual way of saying "yes"? If so, what is the standard way?
What is the difference between "I love" and "I like" ? I seem to have missed it.
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Not just semitic. Lots of languages have the same word that can be used to mean love or like.
This section has to be about art, looking at it or doing it. Perhaps students in a class doing lion sculpture? Or paintings? Neat to try to attach context!
If the lion is on this side of the fence, you should probably start running...
You have never been to any ME country before then... The lions and tigers as pets are a common thing there.
I love my lion but do not love her lion, should be accepted because the subject is I and need not be repeated. I wrote this comment without having read the above similar comments. Strength in the multitude!!!!
Grammar correction:
"lakinna" لَكِنَّ couldn't be followed by verb directly. It should be lakin لَكِنْ.
If we insist on using "lakinna" لَكِنَّ, it will be: "lakinnii" لَكِنِّي or "lakinnanii" لَكِنَّنِي (both mean: "but, I").
So,
1) أحبُّ أسدي لكنْ لا أحبُّ أسدها
2) أحبُّ أسدي لكنِّي لا أحبُّ أسدها
3) أحبُّ أسدي لكنَّنِي لا أحبُّ أسدها
♪Thought by now, you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lion eyes...♪
Hmmm actually in arabic usually, there are many many words for the same verbs(synonyms) with each word has its special "detail"?! Besides its general meaning .. as for like/love there is أعشق which has a stronger meaning of أحب ...
This should be accepted, because the two sentences are exactly synonymous in English and "I" in "I love" is not spelled out in Arabic.
Wait so here uHib can be translated as love but otherwise only as like? UHib can mean like or love and both answers must be accepted. I translated it as love in the hobbies lesson and they marked it as wrong
PLEASE,HELP ME! 3 DAYS now l translate correctly in English this sentence, Duolingo writes exactly my answer but it says l wrote it wrongly!!!!!! 3 DAYS NOW I CAN NOT GO IN ANOTHER LESSON. Is this happening to anybody else? Were to report this? 3 days l write comments and reports ,no replying.....
DUO please solve this problem with ''dagger alif'' , i write correctly لكن .but it says wrong ,the same problem with the word هذا .
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Yes yes yes, Pierre_YvesB! And apart from its intrinsic wonderfulness, it is dear to my heart because it's the first sentence I had the courage to utter (on the phone) to a real live Arab (friend of a friend; alas, I know no native speakers), and he understood and laughed. Oh joy.
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In the listening exercise i typed " احب اسدي لكن لا احي اسدها " and not accepted. Can someone show me what is my mistake?
You made a mistake with 2nd أحب. أحب أسدي لكن لا أحب أسدها. Check 2nd part of the sentence and compare the letters you typed. Hope it helps...
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I found what is wrong: I typed exactly same but only i changed the " ل " with " لٰ ". Duo sometimes does not accept " هذا" and " لكن " without " dagger alif "
Particle لا means 'not', you put it before a verb. لَيْسَ is a verb meaning 'to be absent', and i believe this is the 3rd person form.
Actually I am not sure if it is a verb. عند isn't a verb, it means "at", so that's why I'm not sure if ليس is a verb. If it is a verb, how would you translate it?
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My DEAR AzlgaziZsoozsy, I'm so glad you wrote that. I hadn't thought about it much myself, I just interpreted it for myself to mean "it is not the case that", but thanks to your message, I looked online and found this marvellously enlightening site: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3 Enjoy! And here's an appreciative lingot from me.
Thank you, dear KatieC993112 both your explanation with the link, which are really useful and also your lingot, let me give you back (or another one ;) <3
In other lessons احب was translated as like. But her it was recorded as an error
How many more times will I encounter this sentence? I've probably seen it a dozen times in these exercises.
I wrote the correct translation, exactly the same words one by one and it says it is wrong!!! Lost a heart
This sentence is blocked. I write it correctly acoording to Duolingo's "correction". My answer is correct, word by word but it says it is wrong!!!!!!! I am loosing my hearts, l can not continue in another level. I don't know what to do, l report it 4 times, no improvement!!!!!
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لكن is a spelling mistake according to the course, though all my friends write it like this?
Another example of a stupid sentence that will never be used in real life. Why?
Normally "love" is equal to "like" so i put as answer : "i like your lion but i do not like her lion" ... am i wrong ?
i wrote like the translation says however the word lion was marked false. Why??
