"Você precisa da escova?"

Translation: Do you need the brush?

[Val_from_hell]

What kind of brush are we talking about? Toothbrush? Paintbrush? Toilet brush?

[Paulenrique]

We don't know it without a context, either in English or in Portuguese.

[pezbabel]

Could a 'escova' be a broom?

[Svadharma]

Broom is a vassoura.

[CrystalGuti]

Thanks! As a spanish speaker I automatically went with broom. :(

[kcmurphy]

Native speakers, what is the translation? I'm a little suspicious of what Duolingo says.

[Paulenrique]

Yes, it is wrong. Você precisa da escova? = do you need THE brush? / você precisa escovar? = do you need to brush?

[erackson]

I put "Do you need the brush?" and it was correct.

[JanardanSa4]

How will you say Do you need a brush?.

[Paulenrique]

Você precisa de uma escova?

[LinguDemo]

I keep forgetting where the s and c in Precisa go. XD

[Rosa40631]

Dumpsey, If it were presica it would be pronounced prehseekah, c makes the s sound when followed by i and k if follow by a so it has to be precisa to be pronounced prehseesah. Hope that helps you remember.

[LinguDemo]

I hope that misspelling of my name was unintentional. That felt like an insult.

Thank you for the tip, though.