"Nós choramos como bebês."

Translation: We cry like babies.

[superfantastik]

In a lesson where we haven't learned past tense yet, it is assumed the answer would be "cry like babies", not "cried"

[alacleiton0]

choramos may be past and present.

[pfeil]

A gente chora igual bebê is the authentic spoken/informal Brazilian Portuguese. 99% chance you'll hear this instead of that overly formal duo's sentence.

[Rune2015]

Yes we are crying when DuoLingo doesn't accept our translation ;-)

[lm.rinn]

Anyways, both of the translations have to be accepted

[incoplanje]

Is "bebés" the European spelling of the plural? Duo tells me to 'pay attention to the accents' :'(

[Ymeagain]

That is the Spanish spelling, I think, for the baby → 'el bebé '. The Portuguese is 'o bebê'.

[Scutigera]

The Brazilian for baby is bebê with the circumflex accent and the European Portuguese is bebé with the acute accent. User, incopanje is correct and DL should accept both.

http://www.sonia-portuguese.com/language/brazil-portugal/

Some words have an acute accent (´) in European Portuguese, but a circumflex accent (^) in Brazilian Portuguese. Example: bebé > bebê (baby), quilómetro > quilômetro (kilometer).

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Also in EU PT, "choramos" would have an accent over the "a" to indicate the past tense (this happens with "a" verbs even after the orthographic agreement).

[Sean_Roy]

... said the Cleveland Cavaliers.

[GrnpcFTMarkRMOwl]

If both past and present are not accepted, then the future tense applies in this case, "We will cry like babies". So, we should report otherwise.

[Gilbertogestor]

Nós choraremos como bebês

[GrnpcFTMarkRMOwl]

Good point. I must have been mixing it up with my English usage of the present simple, "We're crying like babies tonight at the Subway World Series game in NY or Chicago!"

[Gilbertogestor]

An be also "We will cry like babies" "Nós vamos(will) chorar como bebês". Future
"We're crying like babies" Nós estamos choraNDO (=ing it called Gerúndio) como bebês. Present

[FlawyerLawyer]

Bebê (Brazil)

Bebé (other countries)