"Yes, the cow drinks milk."

Translation: Evet, inek süt içer.

[Parmarosa]

why is "THE cow" not "inegi" but "inek"?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Subjects will never be in the accusative case. It is exclusively for direct objects. As a subject, there is no way to tell between "the cow" and "a cow."

[ahmedeee]

But would "İneği" be correct?

[ReginaPndh]

no it wouldn't

[ahmad.abid]

really the cow drinks the milk or gives the milk...

[nedzla582916]

The big cow gives and the little drinks

[Fati172221]

strange

[HazemEl-Ra]

I eat the cow => inegi
I eat a cow => inek
The cow drinks milk => inek
A cow drinks milk => inek

Correct?

[TobyBartels]

Correct, although for ‘a’ you can optionally put in ‘bir’. (And that seems to be required in certain contexts that I don't understand.)

[englks]

Why not sütü, though?

[MustavaM]

"sütü" would mean "the milk" as far i know

[Ahmed.Toldo]

What kind of sentences is this !!!

[alper64.]

The sentence is grammatically correct but as meaningless as "The man barks the dog."

[KarimaLahn]

why inegi is not correct since we have the cow

[TheFlyingLemon]

Because the cow is the doer.

The cow drinks the milk: İnek, sütü içer

The milk drinks the cow: Süt, ineği içer

[ARH1wG]

Though the question as to why is it not sütü instead of süt, has not been answered.

[blue14Queen]

in sometimes Doulingo make mistakes......................

[FatimaElZahraBen]

İs it true that a cow drinks it's own milk!!!!

[Rudx13]

The babies of the cow do :)

[Dala931617]

Wait so the cows drink their own-

[HeidiAlexa8]

-.-'

[eva98869]

Can we also say sütu instead of süt?