"My grandparents always sit at home at the table."
Translation:Miaj geavoj ĉiam sidas hejme apud la tablo.
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The translation should be with ĉe
ĉe la tablo (when eating your legs are below the table, so there's a very close contact) apud la tablo (you are no way ouching the table, no legs are below the table)
"Apud" means "beside, or next to," and in this case I think "cxe" would be a better translation since it means "at."
I would be careful to say 'better'... you are forcing an English conceptualization onto the language which does have its own culture in which perhaps this is more common to mean exactly what we would say "at the table"
But yes... Cxe is another solution to communicate the idea, and speakers should be prepared to understand both of these choices as being viable.
if "at the table" always mean you are sitting for eating, so with legs under the table, it's ĉe. if it could mean "next to the table" the apud would be right. As far as I learned, at the table has only one meaning, the first one, so i report this
I'm using the mobile app and this came as the type where you have to piece the right words in order. Apud was the only option, but I do think ĉe would have been better
Nonetheless, I've been instilled with that English conceptualization all of my life & then have been docked by duolingo for trying to not translate things word for word literal. I went for ĉe, even though my Esperanto instincts said "apud."
soo yesterday i got the sentence: "mi sidas ĉe la tablo". (i had to translate it into esperanto!) So now i am asking why on earth is it wrong to use both Ĉe and apud? This is a bug in the app!