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- "Tuas gatas bebem leite?"
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True. It doesn't "sound" like a question but it does have a question mark at the end.
The OP may have gotten one of those "write what you hear" questions not a "translate this sentence" question. I think that's where the confusion happened
the question was spoken like a statement not a question...leite...not LEIte. So I got it wrong.
ah ok, I didn't pick up that you meant "sound" literally. What did you write that was marked wrong?
Your cats drink milk, not does your cat drink milk, because the sentence was spoken incorrectly.
Maybe I still misunderstand. I do agree that the question is not spoken as a question, and needs to have an upward intonation at the end. But whether you put "Do" at the beginning of your answer should not matter to Duolingo. The answers
"Do your cats drink milk?"
"Do your cats drink milk"
"Your cats drink milk?"
"Your cats drink milk"
should all be marked correct by Duolingo. If not then it needs to be reported as not accepting your answer.
EDIT: I base this on the fact that I never start questions with "Do" or "Does" or end questions with punctuation (simply because I am lazy) and Duolingo accepts it 99% of the time.
You misunderstand: I wrote the wrong answer because the sentence was not spoken correctly. I did not add "Does" to the sentence because it was not implied as a question.
My english is not so good, but I'll try to explain.
In portuguese, we could use TU or VOCÊ to talk about YOU. They have the same meaning, but the grammar rules are different. When you use TU, you have to use the possessive pronoun TEU (male) or TUA (female). When you use VOCÊ, you have to use SEU (male) or SUA (female). To form the plural, you add "s" (TEUS, TUAS. SEUS, SUAS).
Ex: Você tem um gato (you have a cat). Seu gato bebe leite (your cat drinks milk).
Tu tens um gato (you have a cat). Teu gato bebe leite (your cat drinks milk).
As you can see, the two phrases have the same meaning, but are grammatically different.
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Thank you so much! I asked my Brazilian friends and they didn't know how to explain it. But you explained it perfectly!
tuas = suas
But TUAS is more used in Portugal, while SUAS is more used in Brazil. Same case of TU e VOCÊ. It is preferred uses VOCÊ+SUAS (mainly in Brazil) and TU+TUAS (in Portugal).
tuas (your) is for informal (tu). Suas (your) is for formal (voce) and also suas (his, her, its, their) for the third person (ele, ela, eles, elas).
Olá! You (Você, ou Tu) can choose to use only "você" instead of "tu", because it is most commonly used in Brazil.
In the south of Brazil you use "tu", but there are also those who say "você".
By using "você", it is easier to conjugate verbs. (Everything is easier!)
Você / Possessive: "Seu, seus; Sua, suas".
My portugese girlfriend can not even explain the difference in tua/sua or tuas/suas....might just be good old "JUST LEARN B****!"
If the question was reversed, i.e. translate from English to Portuguese, could you use "Suas" or "Tuas" and be correct with either answer?
