"Estudantes tomam vinho."

Translation: Students drink wine.

[Shenzhi]

Those lazy students! All party and fiesta! I didnt know it was take as in "intake" either though....

[whitebox]

What is the difference in using tomar versus beber?

[Paulenrique]

They both are used as drink, but beber is used for liquids and tomar includes other senses (like take). Tomar o ônibus, tomar banho, tomar remédio.

[liofla]

I believe that tomar can also only be used transitively, unlike beber?

Like I can say "O estudantes bebem" (the students drink) but not "O estudantes tomam" because the meaning of tomar is more generic.

[Paulenrique]

Depening on the context, "tomar" can also be used intransetively. =)

[liofla]

Ah, I stand corrected then.

[KimGava]

Why is "The students drink wine" wrong in English? The correction said "Students drink wine".

[mahrietta]

Because if it were THE students it would be OS estudantes

[terencefernandes]

I said take wine and it was incorrect

[JFSPA]

"take" used to mean "drink" has become rare in english, and is usually avoided when the alternative meaning of "pick up and hold onto without asking" is a possible alternative meaning. One does still say "I take coffee with my breakfast," or ask "do you take coffee or tea," so arguably, it should be accepted here.

[anthonydav260678]

it may be slightly old fashioned but it is still correct and should be accepted.

[Neia.Abreu]

"The students drink wine " is wrong!! Why?

[Luis_Domingos]

Here we don't have an article because we're talking about students in general - it's a habit/fixed behavior of students (or so Duolingo thinks). "The students" is a specific group of students.