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- "Ela só tem cem dólares."
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If you translate it that way, you're completely leaving "só" and the meaning of the sentence changes.
633
If you mean that it can be "she has hundred dollars," I'm afraid you are incorrect. A person has "a hundred" or "one hundred" dollars.
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I have to disagree. It is a correct answer in the Context (!) of the course. Because: - even though it's grammatically incorrect, but still the meaning is clear - it shows that the person understands Portuguese phrase correctly. That is the most important here
After all it's not an English course. Unfortunately Portuguese for English speakers is almost the only option in Duo and many people come here with intention to learn proper Portuguese and almost zero intention to learn 100% grammatically correct English (there's an English course for this)
So, if a similar mistake is made in a Portuguese sentence, I agree it's an error. In English - as soon as it's close to the right answer, it must be considered a typo (Duo gives nice hints about the typos sometimes when it's not unreasonably picky)
I don't understand why the person above was downvoted that much