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duolingo you literally just told me you were going to order four kilograms of tomatoes dont act like 1 kilogram is bread is a large amount
Forty years later, and I can still hear my second grade teacher's voice saying, " 'A lot': two words!"
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Haha, that's what I love about Duolingo. I'm pretty good with my English, but sometimes some grammar rules slip my mind and Duolingo catches them. This is good, as I have to write a lot of reports for college.
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As a native English speaker, "one kilogram bread" doesn't really sound right.
Bread is a mass noun, and when you put an adjective in front of it, you should still be able to have any amount of it. You could have a little bit of rye bread or blue bread or delicious bread, or you could have a ton of it. However, you can't have 10 kilograms of 1 kilogram bread.
You are still able to say "a 200-pound man", since you can still have just one 200-pound man, or 500 200-pound men.
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I think of should be there. I don't know why, but it just doesn't seem right and is slightly confusing in some way. I recommend typing out the whole sentence just to be sure.
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It is not accepted, I have just answered that and got wrong. I understand why now :)
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What about one "bread's kilogram"? Since it's kilogramo da pano. [95% joking, 5% surprised to see how it actually makes no sense]
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If multe is an adverb, then shouldn't the sentence be "Unu kilogramo da pano estas multa"? Or would there be some other way to say it?
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Hi!, after "estas" when there is not any subject in the sentence, you must use an adverb, not an adjective. It's a rule of Esperanto. Hope this helps, excuse for my English, I'm not a native speaker. Regards.
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hm. It errored "A litre of water is not lots", saying it was A lot,but Ithisgot through fine.
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Well, in English you cannot always substitute "a lot" and "lots" for each other, only sometimes. Even if with plural liters (or litres). You'd say, "Five liters is not a lot of water," rather than, "Five liters is not lots of water."
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Why isn't it "multa" in this case? Unu kilogramo, which is what's being described, should take an a-vorto not an e-vorto, right?
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"One kilogram of bread is plenty" was accepted. I rather doubted it would be, but I decided to try it.
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A kilo of bread isn't that much considering a normal loaf is 800g.
