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- "Adesso hai zero amici."
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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.
I definitely agree and am soooo impressed. Like how is this possible.
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?
xyphax: Going out on a limb, I'd take zero bananas over no friends any day.
Right after the disagreement with the snake that was in the boots but befor the event with the ant in the sugar...
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 ;)
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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.
Deleting my Facebook account doesn't mean that at all Duo...sniff I'm just busy.
And I though the example "la prossima settimana è la mia ultima settimana" was dark.
I disagree. 'at present...' sounds fine though granted 'now' is simpler and more common. I could imagine it'd even be preferable in certain situations such as games, tv gamesshows, or contests in which the number of friends changes as the game progresses.
meilonn: they mean different things:'adesso' = 'now', while 'ma' and "però" mean 'but' .
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.
Now you have zero of the friends? I guess there might be situations where that works?
This is really funny to me because directly before this I had 'You have a million friends'
So me getting a friend on here is a plus 1? Thats a 100% increase. Wow duolingo way to add insult to injury. Lol
This lesson has sentences that grouped together have very dark undertones.
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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.
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.
