"He has a cat."
Translation:Il a un chat.
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I don't think it's implying that all cats are male, I think it's implying that "chat" is masculine in French. Right??
Yes, you are right. I asked my Spanish teacher in school a similar question, and she said that the word was fem or masc, not the animal. Of course, you can use the fem for a female animal if you wish. But my teacher said that in Spanish and French, they mostly use the masc.
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le-loup- I desagree on one point. We use as well chat or chatte, in French. We don't use the masculine if the cat is female., but here, when there's no context, you should use the masculine, but the feminine would have been a correct answer too.
Also, I seriously suggest reading the tips and tricks that you see in top right while answering the questions. It has some pretty good summarized statements.
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Here, if you write: 1. Il a un chat; or 2. Il a une chatte. (Chatte is the fem. form, not chat) Both are correct. But, as has been mentioned in one of the other comments, if there is no context mentioned, then the cat is assumed male, in french.
for "he" i am typing II and it gets rejected all the time .. very frustrating. how else do i write HE in french with english keyboard
I'm trying to type in the translation and it keeps bringing me here! Super irritating.
I don't think it natter what sex the cat is we're learning the language abd just starting.
I hovered my mouse over "has" and prend is listed as a translated. I clicked "C" to make sure the il/elle/on version was prend and it was. I typed in "Il prend un chat." Why is this wrong?
I think it's the pronunciation of 'un'. 'Un' is pronounced 'ahn', and 'une' is pronounced 'oon', and that should tell us the gender.
What is the difference between une and un not just for feminine and masculine
I typed the proper french words and it said it was wrong i looked and it over and it was the same thing what the heck!
On other questions, not always defaulting to masculine is acceptable. When the question doesn't not designate a gender, either should suffice. : (
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Strange when I lived in Argentina and I would tell a friend about the other friend's cat, I would correctly identify the gender of the cat if I knew it. If I saw a random stray, it was always male.
I just don't understand how level 4 has exactly the same sentence constructions and vocabulary as level 3. How is this a new level then? It is very frustrating to feel like you are coursing so slowly through what I consider to be an unreasonable number of repetitions of exactly the same material. Even though I have paid for a subscription to duolingo plus, I find it extremely difficult to keep motivated when I have to write the same exact sentence for the nth time.
can someone please tell me how to type "he" in french on my computer. I've tried using two l's or two capital I's but nothing works and i keep getting it wrong
I got this same question twice in a row the first time i put Il a un chat it marked it wrong and said it was il a une chatte, so second question i typed it the second way and it got marked wrong again. -_-
Why is posede used for "Elle posede une robe" but not for "He has a cat. "