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"Are you ready?"
Translation:Tu es prête ?
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Why is it "prête" and "prêt?" I don't understand the difference in this case.
I would add that the masc./fem. differentiation is based on the person you are addressing; if they are male, use prêt and if they are female, use prête. Use masculine terms when referring to mixed groups and femine when referring to a group of exclusively women. Hope that helped a little!
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If you're conversing with someone, you presumably know their gender so use that. If you're doing an audio exercise here on DL, prête has an audible "t" sound at the end, but prêt will sound like "pray."
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When the prompt says "Are you ready?" in English, there's no way to know, and it's marking "pret" wrong.
Never mind; the error was that I was using "est" instead of "es" after "Tu". Problem is almost always the loose screw behind the keyboard.
Yep, its just words on the screen along with a guy's imaey, but "pret" is marked wrong, only "prete" is accepted (Dec 2020)
There is no audio to give us a clue, but my answer ("tu est prets") is marked wrong.
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You have two things wrong with that. The "être" conjugation for "tu" is "es", not "est". And since you are using "tu", you need to use one of the singular forms of "prêt" (masculine) or "prête" (feminine).
Which gender form would you use if you were speaking to a male who identifies as a female? Yes, the world has gone crazy!
I agree. There is nothing to differentiate gender. We should get that point
I found it odd that both "Êtes-vous prêt ?" and "Êtes-vous prêts ?" were accepted. Some Googling later, I learnt that "vous" can be singular and plural. (Just thought I'd share that).
Vous is formal. Tu is informal. It just means "you" which, as in English, can be both.
vous is also therefore singular and plural as in third person singular and third person plural, as Stephen points out above
How would one know it's supposed to be masculine or feminine? What should one look for?
Listen for the "T""
If you are asking someone if they are ready - When you ask a man or boy if they are ready you would say "Tu est prêt ?". Note there is no e on the end of the word so you do not pronounce the t.
When you ask a girl or woman you would say ''Tu est prête ?" When there is an e on the end of the word you pronounce the T.
So the key in this sentence is to listen for a ''T'' in prête. If you hear a ''T'' then prête is feminine. If you don''t hear the ''T'' then prêt is masculine.
Many adjectives are made feminine simply by adding an ''e'' at the end of the word. When this happens the consonant preceeding the ''e'' is pronounced.
There's no sound on the app so you cannot hear the t. Both should be accepted as correct.
On 5/23/19, no audio accompanied this question. DL accepted my answer "Vous êtes prêts."
However, with NO audio, ALL of the answers below should also be accepted by DL as a correct written translation of “Are you ready?” because: (1) “you” can refer to both singular and plural and (2) one cannot listen for an audible "t" in prête / prêtes, which would indicate that the question is being addressed to a woman (or more than one woman).
INFORMAL, SINGULAR
"Tu es prêt" -- addressing a man
"Tu es prête -- addressing a woman
FORMAL, SINGULAR
"Vous êtes prêt" -- addressing a man
"Vous êtes prête -- addressing a woman
PLURAL, INFORMAL AND FORMAL
"Vous êtes prêts -- addressing men or mixed (women and men)
"Vous êtes prêtes" -- addressing only women
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No, the circonflexe was taken down only in u and i. Besides, I think Duo still uses the old writing.
In French verbes are conjugated with regards to a person's perspective (1. 2. or 3. person), as well as singular/plural, tenses, etc.
In this case the conjugation ("bending") of the verb être (present tense) is as follows:
SINGILAR 1. Je suis 2. Tu es 3. Il/elle/on est PLURAL 1. Nous sommes 2. Vous êtes 3. Ils/elles sont
Please excuse the spelling errors. Writing fast on a phone, does not make for a correctly spelled sentence
"prêtes" is feminine plural, but "es-tu" is asking a single person. Correct would be any of the following:
"Es-tu prêt" or "Es-tu prête" asking a single male person (1st) or single female person (2nd) informally
"Êtes-vous prêt" or "Êtes-vous prête" asking a single male person (1st) or a single female person (2nd) formally
"Êtes-vous prêts" or "Êtes-vous prêtes" asking multiple male people or male/female mixed people (1st) or multiple all-female people (2nd)
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There is a problem with this exercise because as has already been mentioned by others in this discussion group, we do not know whether the 'tu' is masculine or feminine. Both 'prêt' and 'prête' should be accepted as correct.
Isn't the circonflexe officially no longer needed? Why did it tell me I was only "almost correct" when I simply left off the circonflexe?
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No, the circonflexe was taken down only in i and u. Besides, I think Duo still uses the old writing.
Yes, however, you use it to adress someone formally, so you adress a single person with ''Etes-vous ....?''
It looks like we need the space between the last word and the question mark
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That is the French convention, but Duo does not treat it (or any punctuation except apostrophes and hyphens) as an error.
prete is used with female persons. Use pret with male persons. Both of these are for a single person. Each needs an s added when there are plural people. However this doesn't mean the computer has all these answers sometimes.
There was no sound so I put 'tu es prêt ? I didn't go to the hints where they only show the feminine word... Both should have been correct in this instance!!! Grrrrr!
you knew it was prete because it was the only one that fitted the statement. No m/f to guess.
Hectorgarc671032, Sometimes Duo gives selections to choose from and other times we need to type in our own. Hence the discussion on m/f.
@kristine671363 Correct, there's also the option to always use a keyboard instead of the word selections. In that case it's up to the learner to decide which words to use. Although you can click the button below the text box to switch between the two methods at any time.
I consider my reply (masculine) correct because in the sentence in Englis there is no way to know the gender for "are you ready?" because there is no context.
Is "Est-ce que tu est prête?" wrong? I see how it can sound unnatural, but is it grammatically incorrect?
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prêtes should be fine as long as (a) you used vous and not tu and (b) the persons that you're asking are all female.
Tu es pret was marked wrong. This is the first time I'm seeing this hyphenated format. Can someone shine some 411 my way please, thanks...
This program should be fixed. Marking a masculine response is wrong and bugs like this improperly ruin otherwise perfect score streaks.
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If you don't include your entire answer (copy and paste is best), then no one can explain.
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I answered "tu es prete" and was marked wrong. (2/27/2020). No gender was indicated. They owe me a heart!
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That is very unlikely, you must have had a typo. There are various alternate options that are accepted as well, but that one is the suggested correct answer.
The english version has no gender information, no way to determine the answer should be in feminine.
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If you are going to make a comment like that, you need to copy and paste your answer here. You were likely still using "est" as in your previous comment.
Why are you insisting on a female form when we don’t know to whom the tu refers. That’s ridiculous
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Both options are accepted, so you made a mistake and you didn't include your entire answer (copy and paste) so no one can explain.
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You still didn't copy and paste your answer, so no, I don't accept that. But I have no way to test it again because I don't know which lesson this was under. Only the mods can see all the possible answers.
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I do. I have used that exact answer in the past. It's extremely unlikely that they would remove an answer. I'm just saying that unless you tell me which lesson this is under, I can't try it again. Or you could just copy and paste your answer that you say doesn't work.
The question is asked in English with no voiceover, therefore "prêt" is the answer, given that, absent any indicators, the assumption is masculine.
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"Tu es prêt?" should be an accepted answer. We do not know the gender of who we are addressing, therefore we must default to the masculine.
"Prête" is an adjective, not a verb. In this case, "es" is the verb. "Tu es"
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If it's not indicated by the context, then both should be accepted. If you think it wasn't, then include your entire answer (copy and paste) in your comment.
If you mean, how do you know which it is...(in case that was your question?)...then you learn the gender of a noun when you learn vocabulary (or you look it up on the computer)
If you are unable to specify the gender by audio you can say"On est pret" ?because you are not sure if it's a man or a woman's voice .It's much easier if you see the person to a" female" you say Tu est prete.(sorry don't have Circonflexe )
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It is apparently used in very informal speech, but not for writing, so it won't be accepted here.
Ridiculous! Either masculine or feminine should be accepted. It is not voiced thus there is no way to know if which gender. In every other instance the image is the one speaking; why is the image the one addressed in this one?
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But I cannot explain why your response was rejected, if you have faithfully reproduced the spelling that you entered.
I catch my mistake when I come here sometimes. On that response, I used it twice to push Duolingo to recognize it was right, yet each time it was rejected. I finally just repeated what they considered correct, and it gave my original response as an alternative.
Computers are not consistent nor very smart yet. It is frustrating but you can report it with the REPORT button or the HELP button under your profile.
It looks correct to me. Sometimes the computer doesn't have all the correct answers. I assume you had accents marks, although duo rarely marks you wrong if you leave them out. According to two very good descriptions above, your example is one of the correct translations: 2nd person formal.
Check out Tom's explanation near the top of this discussion for details on this.
It looks correct to me. If you read the discussion you will see that not all forms are in the computer yet. Reporting it can help get all forms included but only if you use the REPORT button.
The answer says "Another correct solution" so "prête" and "prêt" are both correct
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There is no indication in this exercise to know if you are asking a male or a female. I do not understand why 'tu est pret" is wrong.
If there is no audio, both forms of the word (prêt/prête) should be correct otherwise it isn't fair
Not showing any femine so i can use any of them prête or prêtes why showing wrong..?i is tu es may be i am talking or asking with femine
« Vous êtes prêt(e)s », « Êtes-vous prêt(e)s », and « Est-ce que vous êtes prêt(e)s » are all accepted. You can't use it with « tu », however, as « tu » is singular.
Hmm, the links in the email notifications about responses only just started loading for me on my phone, so going over old emails. I rather doubt I got anything else viz. "Tu es" wrong - so this is probably a bug.
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No, because both "tu es prêt" and "tu es prête" definitely work. You must have had some typo that you didn't notice. I think the most common error is to write "tu est".
Okay, if they are both definitely accepted as an answer to this exercise (I know Duolingo does usually accept a few correct variations), I guess it is possible - finger memory sometimes types things you don't mean to type :)
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I do not know the sex of thr person that I am addressing so I should use 'prêt. It was marked wrongly and it is correct. Marking is definitely not always correct - VERY annoying!
Good, that means it's working. 'Est' is third-person singular – you use 'êtes' with 'vous'.
Tu es prêt should be marked right or duo should offer some explanation so as not to confuse us ,foreign students
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"prête" is feminine singular and "prêts" is masculine plural. All options are accepted if you use the right subject pronoun. e.g. You can't use "prêts" with "tu".
You're thinking of verbs; think adjectives (petit, petite, adding 's' for plural)
I wrote "Est-ce que vous êtes prêtez?" and Duolingo corrected "prêtez" to "prêtes"? I thought verbs were supposed to agree with the subject? I am utterly confused
The verb is...etes = are. Pretes or prete or pret (sorry I don't have accents) are all forms of an adjective meaning 'ready'. It is NOT a verb. It only needs to agree in gender and number. Duo gave you the feminine plural, which could be true if the group (vous = you) is all female.
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Tu is singular and prêts is plural. See other comments in this thread for all of the correct possible answers.
Once again users penalised for not guessing tne unprovidec context. If it is audio tne prêt prête distinction is subtle but definitely identifiable and thus useful. As a written test it is just a lottery
Both are accepted. Copy and paste your complete answer if you want to know what mistake you made.
Once again users penalised for not guessing tne unprovidec context. If it is audio tne prêt prête distinction is subtle but definitely identifiable and thus useful. As a written test it is just a lottery
Something odd here. Tu es prêt marked wrong then a tip saying use tu es not tu est. Um not helpful. Like a good parrot i came back and did tu es prête and was marked right..move on.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. 'Tu es prêt' is definitely accepted, though.
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If you're using the tiles, you have to use the words given. If you're typing it yourself, then you can enter many different options as has been explained many times here in the comments.
I think it was your typos. I wrote "Est-ce que tu es prête?" and it was accepted.
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I missed the question mark out and marked as wrong. Pathetic. Seriously thinking about packing Duo in.
The system doesn't care if you put in a question mark or not. You must have made a mistake somewhere.
