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- "Habitasne in California?"
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LMAO, this sentence gives off the impression that neither Columbus nor the vikings were the first to discover America!
I seem to remember that the "-ne" question type implied a sort of question that tries to seek a yes response. I translated this as "Do you not live in California?" and it was marked incorrect. Not sure if this is an acceptable translation or maybe I'm confusing the "-ne" ending with one of the other question types.
512
I also thought this so I put "You live in California, don't you?". But it turns out that is -nonne.
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Fun fact for all those talking about California being a name unknown to those who would have used Latin before it "died:"
The name California comes from a name made up for a libro de caballerías published in Spain in 1510. A native speaker of Vulgar Latin could totally have known about that book, and therefore known about the name California! Does that make this sentence a sentence they would have likely used way back then? Well, this IS Duolingo, so... ask that to the person who decided "Is your cat from Cuba, Seth?" would be a good phrase for us to learn in Arabic.
Yes, if it is California in New-Brunswick or Colombia or Missouri or ... (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/California).