"Ŝiaj bogepatroj loĝas en Usono."
Translation:Her in-laws live in the United States.
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One of the available instances of the word 'in' was capitalised but accepted when used mid sentence.
Well, it has to be 'the USA', though it should accept just USA alone (since that's how people use it in common writing.
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Bogepatroj is parents-in-law. People commonly say in-laws to talk about parents-in-law, if I'm not mistaken.
The family you marry into. Your spouse's mother is your mother-in-law. Your spouse's father is your father-in-law. Your spouse's sister is your sister-in-law. Your spouse's brother is your brother-in-law.
English (my native language). I'm not that interested in mastery, though. I'm taking a broad survey of different languages because I'm interested in linguistics and constructed languages and I want to see how different languages are put together.
bogepatroj is parents-in-law.
bopatro is father-in-law.
bopatrino is mother-in-law.
bofrato is brother-in-law.
bofratino is sister-in-law.
Any combination of them are your in-laws.
I used USA and the program said it was wrong it should be America, but that is used for the continent, not the country
Duo was wrong to mark "USA" incorrect (unless you only put "USA" instead of "the USA"), but "America" is used for both the USA and the continent.
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“North America” is used for the continent. “America” is short for “United States of America”.