"Вона знає українську, а я знаю англійську."
Translation:She knows Ukrainian and I know English.
June 3, 2015
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I translated "a" as "but" and was marked wrong. I thought "a" can mean "and" and "but"
Vinnfred
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"A" should be translated as "and", but it has meaning somewhat close to "while". It's a very slight contradiction
I tried to explain it here. Admittedly, my native language is Russian, but I found that «а» behaves the same in Russian and Ukranian in at least some basic structures.
I am surprised that no one is complaining about too direct, but really unnatural translation. I have never heard or seen in a naturally spoken or written English sentence to use werb "to know" in relation to a language. You SPEAK (or don't) Englis or Ukrainian, it is so unnatural for English to say "I KNOW (or don't) English or Ukrainian". Or am I really wrong?
