"The men drink beer."
Translation:Os homens bebem cerveja.
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"Men drink beer" means men in general drink beer.
"The men drink beer" means some identified group is drinking.
Portuguese works the same way, with some exceptions.
Why is "Eles bebem cerveja" wrong? If Eles is a plural masculine pronoun - doesn't it suggest "The men are drinking beer"? Any clarification is much appreciated!
From "Homens bebem" you can infer "eles bebem". But from "eles bebem" you cannot infer "homens bebem". Becaus eles can be a group of men+women, or even animals or things.
I think there needs to be more leniency with typos. When I wrote "cerveza", it was marked correct with a note of the correct spelling below. But when I wrote "escrevam", "instead of escrevem", i lost a life. And often you cannot tell if the speaker is saying eles or elas. They say "elus" or something in between. Some of those need to just have a note of misspelled word at the bottom, but accept them.
Portuguese is a difficult language but it is worth learning, I just didn’t understand it, I’m not at the level yet, the verb to BE and strange in Portuguese has two verbs ser e estar i dont under stand
