"Je n'arrive pas à ouvrir la pièce jointe."
Translation:I'm not able to open the attachment.
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Now 5 and not accepted. Duo, explain yourself. What, if any, is the difference between "can't" and "not able to"????
'Not able = unable' Can't is a contraction of cannot, so is a synonym for unable.
Will some very clever person explain to the difference between a) I'm not able to open the attachment, and b) I can't open the attachment. Duo believes one of these to be wrong!
I'm not able to open the attachment - je n'arrive pas à ouvrir la pièce jointe ; I can't open the attachment - je ne peux pas ouvrir la pièce jointe
Except that in English, "I can't" is the common usage for this idiom, not "I'm not able" which has twice as many syllables and is clunky English. You might write "I'm not able" or rather "I am not able" if writing a formal form of English but everyone would say "I can't"
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But the meanings are IDENTICAL! So why must there be one good choice and one bad choice??
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I would expect this to be translated equally as I can't or I'm not able to. But that's just silly me.
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This is just getting really, really absurd! I kid you not; Duo just rejected my translation which was identical to his answer, except that I had the gall to use "can't" instead of "am not able to." Really? I beg for Sitesurf to tell me what the difference is between between "am not able to" and "can't." As Adlai Stevenson famously said, I'm willing to wait till hell freezes over.
< I am not able to open UP the attachment > devrait marcher, ça aussi ! surtout quand il [[le mot "up"]] en existe comme une option disponible , quoi !