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- "El hombre bebe agua."
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Isolated it is beve but since it is in the middle of a sentence it is pronounced as veve (exception if the word of the previous sentence ends in n like un bebé)
martin- In Spanish, the sound V doesn' really exists, it's pronounced half-way between B and V.
A native gave a very good hint in another thread. They don't make the difference between "v" and "b" and can't even hear this difference. So, it explained a lot about the inconsistency between "b" and "v" for me.
perce_neige, in Spain my teacher says there's no difference because the sound V doesn't exist and that's what it says in my grammar.
agnusoinas- I read my comment and I see nothing, just tell me what is no sense for you, if it's about the sound V, I repeat the samething. Here's what Spanish Dict says about it : Do all Spanish speakers pronounce V as B? There is absolutely N O difference in the pronunciation of "B" vs. "V" in Spanish. The most important thing to remember about pronouncing the Spanish b and v is that in standard Spanish they are pronounced exactly alike. Although English makes a clear distinction in how the two letters are pronounced, Spanish does not.
agnusoinas- lol now I'm awake, you're absolutely right, I will correct it and here's a lingot for you.
Had the same doubt,but then realized that it is spellef as beve,but as it is in the middle of the sentence,it is spelled as veve
Do you say hombre with the h sound or not? My spanish teacher does it with a little bit of H but I am not sure! Help!
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No, the "h" is silent in Spanish, except for "ch" which is pronounced like the "ch" in "church."
yo bebí, tú bebiste, él/ella/usted bebió, nosotros bebimos, vosotros bebisteis, ellos bebieron.
Bebía is past (Pretérito imperfecto)
Bebió is also past but Pretérito perfecto simple
Yes "bebía" could be "drank".
"Me decía que su hermano bebía demasiado..."
You were telling me your brother drank too much
"Él bebió tanto whisky como tú."
He drank as much whiskey as you did.
http://conjugueur.reverso.net/conjugaison-espagnol-verbe-beb%C3%ADa.html
because they asked for "the man drinks water". Hombre=man . For he drinks water it would be El (accent mark over E) bebe agua = He drinks water
mhavay- With he, you don't know if it's a boy or a man. Also, you translate a noun with a noun, not a pronoun.
Bebo- when speaking of youself Example- "Yo bebo agua" Bebemos- when speaking of we Example- "Nosotros bebemos agua" (you do not have to put "nosotros in, you can just use "bebemos" I put it in the sentence so you can see it is the subject is we. Bebes- informal you Example- "Tu bebes agua" (I'm not sure if you have come to this yet, but "tu" is the informal of you, as if you were speaking to a close friend, "usted" is when you are speaking to someone you don't know very well or have never met. Therefore "bebes" goes with the informal) Bebe- formal you and also any singular other person (he, she, it) Example- "Usted/El/Ella bebe agua" (I hope what I explained above shows you when to use "usted" and that you use it with "bebe". Furthermore, you never use "ella/el" which means, "she/he" with "bebes" only with "bebe") I hope this sufficiently answers your question
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Can one use "informal" speech with everyone? - or, like in Korean, you must use formal speech with someone older or in a higher position than you.
«i have a small book to learn Spanish, it says it,s more natural to say tú than in France. A saleslady or a stranger in the street could say tú to you without beeing impolite. Of course, for older people you can always be formal.
With the accent it means baby without it means drink. The accent determines how its prenounced (where you place emphasis) hope that helps !
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I like to drink water = Me gusta beber agua. "Me gusta" is a structure you probably haven't had yet. It's a verb that works differently than yo bebo, yo como, etc.
No. If you are trying to say I like to drink water, it's 'me gusta beber agua' or 'a mí me gusta beber agua'. You said 'I like myself, it (or he or she) drinks water'. Haha
Literally: it's not "I like myself", but "beber agua" is the subject of the sentence.
Literally: the water pleases me = el agua gusta me. But it's not the right word order.
I drink-----yo bebo You drink (informal)-----tú bebes You drink (formal), it/she/he drinks-----él/ella/usted bebe We drink-------nosotros bebemos They drink--------ustedes beben
Does that answer it?
I am not sure, except that maybe because the word 'the' describing water wasn't there, they marked it wrong.
water is incountable, that's why you can omit the article, unless it's a specific water
Because the same word with the accent and without the accent is actually two different words, with different meanings. Accents are important because sometimes it is the only difference between two same-spelling words in Spanish.
So in this case: él with the accent means "he" and el without the accent means "the" [masculine form of "the"].
So "Él hombre bebe agua" would mean "He man drinks water" which doesn't make much sense. But "El hombre bebe agua" would mean "The man drinks water" which makes a lot more sense. You could also say "Él bebe agua" ["He drinks water"] but not "El bebe agua" ["The drinks water"].
They are very similar words, but they usually are used in different ways. So you can tell them apart both by noticing if it has the accent or not, and also by where in the sentence the word is being used. Usually only one of them will make a lot more sense, which helps you tell them apart when hearing it spoken.
Hopefully that helps. It's a little tricky at first to notice the accents, but this will come up a lot. For example, "tú" with the accent means "you" but "tu" without the accent means "your". And "esté" is one of the many different conjugated forms of the verb "estar" [estoy, está, estás, esté, estés, estado ...] but "este" without the accent just means "this". And "bebe" is third person/formal of the verb meaning "to drink" ("bebo", "bebes", "bebe" ...) but "bebé" with the added accent means "baby". And obviously we don't drink babies. (It's a joke, sorry.) It all seems a little confusing at first, until you start noticing just how much meaning a little accented letter can change. Once you do become more familiar with the accented letters, it starts to become easier to tell similar words apart because the accent stops being something that feels random to memorise. It becomes more than just spelling.
Hopefully that helps someone make sense of it all.
I forgot the "s" in The Man Drinks Water and it marked the whole answer as inccorect instead of saying there is a typo.
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Duolingo does forgive some typos, but it tends to be pretty harsh if the typo results in another word. I've fallen victim to this more times than I can count.
chadsen, you're right on this point, if the word exists it's not a typo, that's why they count that as a mistake. Duo does not know if you really made a typo or a grammatical mistake when the word exists
It's normal to be strict with it here, they are here to learn that it's "drinks" not "drink".
it should be drank water instead of drinks water becuase bebe is drink/drank and bebes is drinks......
brittany- No because bebe is he/she drinks, bebe is present not past. bebes isn't drinks, it's drink, you drink.
Bebe means he/she/it drinks.
Bebe is a sentence in Spanish, and you cannot drop the pronoun in English.
I was looking this up as well. It looks like el without the accent is used when you mean "the" and él with the accent is used when you mean "he".
"el" is the singular form of the article "el hombre" is the man and "los hombres" is the men
Bebe doesn't mean "drink" or "drinks", as it makes no sense in English without the pronoun.
Bebe means he/she/it drinks.
I wrote "The man drinks water" and it was marked wrong. I even have a screen shot of the "wrong" answer
Post your screenshot on the troubleshooting forum, and use the report button.
It can be. As the pronunciation of "b" hesitates between "b" and "v", it depends the region.
I put "The man is drinking water" - marked wrong. Is there a present participle in Spanish then?
Tom45357,
Both are equally correct, but we need to tell Duo to add "The man is drinking water" to the database using the report button. You can see that here:
https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/el%20hombre%20bebe%20agua
https://www.deepl.com/translator#en/es/The%20man%20is%20drinking%20water
https://www.123teachme.com/spanish_verb_conjugation/beber
There is a present progressive conjugation used in conjunction with the conjugated being verb "estar" for this sentence = "El hombre está bebiendo agua." However, it is my understanding that using that phraseology is not as commonly used in Spanish. Rather, Spanish normally uses the present indicative to express both the present indicative and the present progressive indicative, unlike English.
so bebe and bebo and bebes, whats the difference. when does bebo become bebe
2 questions, primero, what are the continuation forms for verbs. (German doesn't have one so I'm sure it'll take a while to get used to. Y secundo, what dialect of Spanish is this? From the lack of the th sound I'm guessing not Spain spanish (sorry for forgetting the name if this dialect)
gerhard- It's more from Latin America, but I often use words in Castellano (Spain) and it's always accepted
I was just wondering since pronunciation can vary quite differently i.e. manthana y manzana, grathias y gracias. Also sometimes words can be the same, but have completely different meanings such as tortilla. Most Americans picture the flat bread used for burritos, but in Spain if you asked for a tortilla you'd get an omelette.
I need to understand this clearly, what's the difference between bebes and be bebemos?
Bebemos is used for nosotros/nosotras. We.
Bebemos: We drink.
Bebes is used for "tú", the singular informal you.
Tú bebes.
I awnserd el hombre bebeS agua, and it said I gave the right awnser while I didnt, why is this the case?
chelsea- you have to learn the conjugations, if not, you'll always have problems
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Is it ever acceptable to say He drinks the water? El bebe el agua? Articles will be the death of me. Or the death of me.
mikee- depending of the context, it's acceptable. We're planning a party, I tell you : bring the water, I'll bring the beer. What is he drinking, the water or the beer? The water. "Él bebe el agua.
why don't doulingo learn to say things are right but mention spelling erros clearly
This word is not sooo hard and I'm INDIAN so this word confused me but I think I learn quickly
'V' and 'B' are half way pronounced so thats why we think that they are saying 'v'
ph.YaQStL,
Verbs in Spanish must be conjugated to align with the subject, mood, tense, etc... The verb you are asking about, in its non-conjugated form, is "beber".
bebo = I drink -or- I am drinking (1st person singular present indicative)
bebes = you (familiar) drink (2nd person singular present indicative)
bebe = he/she/you drink, it drinks -or- he/she/you are drinking, it is drinking (3rd person singular present indicative)
bebé (with the accent) = baby (noun)
Please see this link to see all the possible conjugations for "beber" (to drink):
I have been in a dozen Spanish-speaking countries in America over the past 50 years. Never have I heard "drink" translated as "beber." It is always "tomar."
This is boring and to hard for me and what does bebe mean like what I think I what I mean is I don't think I like this app...
every-time i say the meaning of the word its says it got it wrong when i said the correct meaning of the word.
bruh dulingo counts stuff that aint right duh plus i got my wrong i just have to swith them around.
When I talk into the microphone and I say the sentence it doesn't seem to be picking up what I say.
I got this question right and it says its wrong. I checked it several times and i got it right. Still says wrong
Please, tell us what you write. We cannot see. The best way is to cut & paste here.
Also, tell us what were your given instructions.
02/01/2020, I typed 'the man drinks water' in a 'Type what you hear' version and was 'incorrect'. Capitalization (nor punctuation) has never been a problem in the past with Duo. Reported it.
bebe means baby and beber means to drink has wrong pronunciation and meaning of the word please fix it
No its not "he drink" it's "he drinks" it's not grammatically correct, in spanish or in english.
I meant to type in water but I went too fast and now that that one question wrong and I'm so mad
Please, always mention what you wrote. What did you write? And what where your given instructions?
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This sentence would be incorrect in English. "The man drinks water" or "The man is drinking water" would be the most common ways of saying this. However, you can say "The man does drink water" if you really want to emphasize that he is indeed drinking water; although, this doesn't happen often in normal conversation.
Nathan608479- when you use the ING form, you have to use with the verb to be, conjugated
Wait doesn't hombre also mean husband? If it does then how do we know which it's talking about?
detaolin- If you say the husband drinks, which husband, who is his wife, this sentence isn't complete
