"De måste säga "ja"!"

Translation: They have to say "yes"!

[zooey111198]

"Sorry", you don't usually care about punctuation at all! So why are you insisting on the quotation marks?

[Arnauti]

I don't know why. This is something that is run by the Duo machinery, not created by us course creators. It shouldn't complain about the quotation marks here, but sometimes the machine gets fussy where it shouldn't.

[JavadMousa3]

I had the same problem

[Slotkenov]

Weird, maybe place a space between the last quote and the exclamation mark?

[devalanteriel]

It's embarrassing that this still doesn't work the way it's supposed to, but we cannot do anything about it. Hence, I have marked this sentence for removal in the next tree. We'll make sure not to stick anything with quotation marks in that tree version.

[CampReEducation]

Even more embarrassing in 2020! haha

[JordanOsr]

My answer in English was accepted without quotation marks.

[HaroldWonh]

And mine was just rejected!

[vinnstrs]

Same :/

[petravanli1]

Exactly!!

[TeamDIS]

Exactly that!

[Zaliika]

Why is "They must say yes" not acceptable?

[MattBush2]

It might be due to it requiring the quotation marks around "yes".

[devalanteriel]

That is definitely the case.

[Ceridwen_dt]

Why not 'must' instead of 'have to'. And why the insistence on punctuation as others say?

[devalanteriel]

"must" is also accepted, actually, but if Duolingo arbitrarily decided to require quotation marks from you, then it probably also decided to show the default translation of "have to" rather than the equally good "must".

[Joe873439]

thanks. I was wondering what was going on

[ZhangtheGreat]

As of January 14, 2020, this answer still has to be written with quotes to be considered correct. No other answer cares about punctuation.

[devalanteriel]

Unfortunately, that is not correct. Every sentence with quotation marks has this problem - and Duolingo occasionally insists on other punctuation without reason as well. :(

[PavelSedlk1]

Den här meningen måste bort.

[FLchick]

Feb. 5, 2018 - Now it not only requires quotation marks around "ja" but also requires "ja" be underlined _.! Today I was using my cellphone working on making my tree golden, and I could not do the to satisfy Duo and complete the strengthening exercise!!! So very frustrating. Also, while working on my desktop computer, Duo advised me of a typo for not having the ____.

[Beanybadger]

May 5th 2018- no need for any quotation marks or anything else.

[Scot687756]

June 6 2018, needed quotation marks and/or exclamation point. Android

[SwaSu1]

Still requires quotation marks, and not just ANY quotation marks, either. “Yes” was not accepted, but "Yes" was. Took me a few rounds to figure out! Hah

[Bine299400]

Quotation marks???

[devalanteriel]

What is your question, please?

[DrHelga]

Rejected for me too and now it is January 2021, a year later