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- "Äpplena är flickornas."
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Looks like proper English to me, and I'm a native speaker. It sounds a bit awkward because "the girls'" is in genitive case and plural, and proceeded by a definite article which is rare for English
Wouldn't be correct and maybe better "The apples are the girls' ones" ? Thanks ...
It is proper English, but is very awkward and you would probably never say or write it that way. Since the point of the sentence is to indicate possession, a less awkward way to say the same thing would be "the apples belong to the girls"
People say this kind of thing all the time - informally, sure. And I'd argue that belong changes the meaning subtly, since it implies existing ownership. If you've put an apple aside for someone for when they show up, you wouldn't say it belongs to them - but you would say it's theirs
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a solution to that would be to simple say 'these are the girls' apples' but to Duo that sure is and was too far away from the original...I assume, but to mee it would be the most natural one and I bet the one with highest hit rate everywhere. just mina deut Pfennige...
It doesn't sound like proper English. I'd use belong to the girls. However shouldn't it be "girls'" instead of "girls" in this case?
And it's like that, as we can say, the proper translation is: The apples are the girls'
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Well, I would have translated it with "belongs to" rather then "is". But thats an in insight from my dialect (Austrian)
No apostrophe on the mobile version where you select words from a predefined list
Can't you contact the developers and file a bug report? Or, if they allow users to file bug reports I'd be glad to do it myself.
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No, that would be äpplena är från flickorna. (meaing the girls gave us the apples, but the apples are the girls' means the apples belong to the girls).
I'm having trouble hearing the "ar" in the recording without slowing it down. It's almost as if it isn't being said in the faster option. Is there a way to tell if the "ar" is being said or not? Thanks.
If you pop it into the actual Google Translate websit/app and use the TTS there you can hear the är. For some reason the TTS really speeds up and garbles the speech on Duolingo...
I am not native english speaker and this phrase sounds weird to me. can anybody traslate it to spanish? please
Las manzanas son de las niñas.
El problema está en que "the girls" está en genitivo plural:
the girl's/de la niña
the girls'/de las niñas
The girls' apples! I have never heard "the apples are the girls'. That sounds terrible and should be corrected immediately by Duolingo.
It says i have a typo in my answer because I didn't use a full stop?
It doesn't have a problem, it's just worded very weirdly when trying to compare it to English. "The Apples are the girls'" makes sense and is technically correct.
Nope, possessives of plural nouns ending in -s only add an apostrophe, not an apostrophe + -s, hence girls' and not girls's.
