"Obrigado pelas respostas."
Translation:Thank you for the answers.
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What if the noun was masculine, would pelas then be pelos? Ex. Obrigado pelos cachorros?
I cannot reply to your answer above about how, "Obrigado pelas respostas" could be for "your" [answers], which I am guessing comes from "as" (as in "elas") being contracted with por? Or perhaps more like "P" from "por" + "Elas"? So in this case "as" stops being for "the" (definite determiner article) and becomes a personal (and possessive) pronoun instead for his/her, your (3rd person declension)?
Has this been explained yet up to this level of the Portuguese lessons?
Then that should be "obrigada" but we can picture a scene where two women are talking about a guy and the first asks: "what did he say?" Then she answers: "obrigado pelas respostas"
I thought it was the gender of who you were saying it to that decides whether its obrigado/obrigada, not the gender of the person saying it?
Yes, here the man said "obrigado pelas respostas". It was a reported sentence.
That is certainly a possibility, but Duolingo tends to go for literal translations when the context is uncertain. For example, you wouldn't use "your" if someone hands you a sheet of answers written by a third party.
Why can't "thank you for your responses" be correct? It was marked incorrect.
I used the word "replies" but it was marked wrong. I then checked with a translation app and the word "repostas" was translated as both "answers" and "replies".
joining together the ancient "per lo" (something like "for the") : pelo/pela = for the
While I agree that the meaning is the same between "thank you for the replies" and "thank you for your replies" the latter can be more directly translated as "obrigado(a) pelas suas respostas"