"Adesso hai zero amici."
Translation:Now you have zero friends.
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I got marked wrong for writing '0' instead of 'zero'. Seems like it's accepted some times, and not others. Very aggravating.
The best part of this is that right after I read your comment I checked your profile and saw that you just hit a 330 day streak as well! :D #goals
Did this come directly after the "You have a thousand friends" problem for anyone else? DuoLingo gets harsh at times :P
I disagree. I can hear that being said or I might say that. (I am a native American English speaker..)
RobertGKra: I agree with you with zero reservations! It's a very emphatic and colloquial way of emphasizing that one has not even one of whatever, as e.g., " I have zero interest in seeing that film." or "Finally I have zero debts." So whoever in fact has zero friends may be hapless and lonely, but s/he is at least speaking colloquially correct (American) English.
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Oh, dear. I actually think it's quite useful for emphasis. I agree with you in general about Americanisms, though.
The rule in English for cardinal numbers is the noun is singular for one, otherwise the noun is plural ..
There are zero bananas
There is one banana
There are six bananas
I have no friends
I have one friend
I have ten friends
It would not. Not according to the formal rules. "Tenho zero amigos"; "Tenho um amigo" (I am a Native Speaker, but I guess you too are, because of your name)
È claro que ninguém falaria a frase "Tenho zero amigo", mas simplesmente "Não tenho amigos", não é?
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e o jornal gaúcho se chama Zero Hora, né, Teresinha?
e esse aviso da gm - A GENERAL MOTORS DO BRASIL informa que não realiza a venda de veículos zero quilometro sem o auxílio de uma concessionária da rede Chevrolet. https://www.chevrolet.com.br/carros
O que penso hoje, Teresinha, é que ZERO AMIGOS é uma forma de dizer que, quantos aos amigos, não tenho nada. Não se trata de contar, trata-se de fugir à lógica para exprimir um sentimento. Afinal, uma língua nem sempre segue a lógica da ciência, da matemática.
xyphax: Going out on a limb, I'd take zero bananas over no friends any day.
Haha immediately before this I had to translate "I have a million friends!" Now you have none because clearly I am a massive friend-hog ;)
At first i heard vero & after listening several times, I realized she was saying zero. In general, I don't think she speaks clearly.
It's the same problem that I don't hear every last syllable. I think the audio wants me dead XD.
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nobody says "now you have zero friends" in the uk anyway. They always say "now you have no friends" please allow this as the translation is rediculous.
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No-asked, but this is the internet, so here's what I have to say regardless: The word for zero started life in Arabic as sfir, void. Then the Romans came and Latinised it to zefir. This was Italianised during the Renaissance to zefiro, then abbreviated to... zero. So zero is actually an Italian word!
Would not adesso refer to I and not you. Thought would be "I have no friends".
malLove: adesso is not a verb it's an adverb meaning 'now'. The subject is 'hai' or 'you'.
Only a mistake: "The subject of "hai" is you." "Hai" is the verb "avere" in the second person singular.
This lesson has sentences that grouped together have very dark undertones.
IT SOUNDED LIKE VERO!!!!! now i have true friends, which is also a viable sentence!!!
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Although this one isn't as much weird fun as "Are your shoes electric" or "Is this my arm?" the subtle yet firm "zero friends" over the usual old "no friends" does please me. Teenagers probably would say this more than adults, or perhaps an exasperated mom whose son who has just shoved the last kid in the world willing to play with him.
Has anone else seen the question about having 70 friends? That person went from 70 to 0. :(
