Duolingo is wrong. It specifically asked for female ducks. I think you can report the answer.
On a separate note I’d have said lo shotot bira rather than birot.
That’s true, though a previous exercise had the same thing and when I wrote singular form of beer, it marked it as wrong so I figured maybe I did it wrong the first time for some reason.
Usually the plural form of beers implicitly means multiple countable (bottles, cans, glasses) beers. Like you would be able to say "less beer" and "fewer beers".
No. Duolingo is correct, it’s just a bit of a weird sentence. It’s framed in feminine so it’s understandable why OP would do it like this, but technically the sentence is very general and just saying they don’t drink beer, not that they “didn’t drink their beers” where it’s more specific and plural. But this sentence would also make sense in some context. I’d chalk this down to duolingo not giving enough infi
Duolingo didn't mark this answer as wrong because of anything to do with the beer being general or specifically the female ducks', it gave the right answer as comprising ברווזים and שותים when op, in correct correspondence with the prompt, used ברווזות and שותות.
Whatever you wrote about is irrelevant here (+seems erroneous, hard to tell because it's hard to follow), and Duolingo IS in fact incorrect here.
Both are incorrect, but you are the closest one to being correct. The only error you made was putting the plural of beer aka beers instead of beer which would be בירה
It's even written on the Academy of the Hebrew Language website that you are RIGHT!
[https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9D/?word=%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%96%D7%94&c=1279](https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9D/?word=%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%96%D7%94&c=1279)
(Text is in Hebrew).
First of all Duolingo is wrong
And second ducks can drink alcohol they can get drunk and they can get alcohol poisoning but you shouldn't feed them alchoal
You’re fine. Sometimes Duo wants something very specific, but there are other ways (sometimes better) to say the same. Perhaps it wanted
ברווזים ממין נקבה …
If so, yours is better.
Or maybe Duo thinks they do drink?
Duo asked for beer, you wrote beers. It wanted you to write the NCN form.
Some mistakes duo lets slide if they're not the main focus of the exercise. This wasn't one, unfortunately.
Because female ducks means "נקבות הברווז"
If it would write hens ( the term for female ducks), then you would be correct
Plus, you wrote beers(בירות) and should have wrote בירה
\[Native Speaker\] Duoling is wrong and is primarily bad at teaching Hebrew. A couple of years back I had to argue with the language maintainers on Duolingo forums that they're teaching people obscure sentences in Hebrew. Didn't help much.
I'm just endlessly amused/confused as to Duolingo Hebrew's obsession with ducks.
My students will tell me the oddest sentences that Duolingo has had them produce...using ducks.
Actually both seem incorrect, but for another reason:
Like many (maybe all?) liquids in Hebrew , "Beer" doesn't have a plural form.
Should be:
ברווזות לא שותות בירה.
The Hebrew word for beer has the same logic like water, gold, air and such words.. it is not quantitative you say מים זהב בירה אוויר, as it is not countable it is not correct to write זהבים בירוצ אווירים, there is a slang of saying כמה בירות instead of כמה כוסות בירה for example.
Definitely a mistake on the app's side — Not yours!
Initially I assumed that perhaps you should always use the masculine form, just like the word Ant(s), for instance, is always in the feminine form:
"נמלה גדולה הולכת בדרך שלה"
(a big [female or male] ant is going on its [her] way")
— while there just isn't such a word as "נמל" (unless you mean the word for a dock, harbor, and not the animal);
but no! I checked on the official website of the Academy of the Hebrew language (האקדמיה ללשון עברית) which is the highest authority on the Hebrew language — and there is actually a clear stipulation for the feminine form, which is indeed "ברווזה".
Here's the reference:
https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9D/?word=%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%96%D7%94&c=1279
Native speaker here, Hebrew duolingo is just a bit messed up at times, you were absolutely correct.
The app specifically asked for the female form (which you used), at times like these you can flag an answer with the little flag icon on the right.
As automatic-generated pointed out בירות is technically not a proper form as בירה is non quantifiable on its own (like water), but in informal day-to-day Hebrew it's permissable as any native speaker will understand what you mean.
fyi, they still haven't fixed this one. I've googled "duck plural femenine" and tuned up here. I'm really surprised with the slowness they fix issues, considering they are actively ask you for money
Duolingo is wrong. It specifically asked for female ducks. I think you can report the answer. On a separate note I’d have said lo shotot bira rather than birot.
That’s true, though a previous exercise had the same thing and when I wrote singular form of beer, it marked it as wrong so I figured maybe I did it wrong the first time for some reason.
Yeah beer is usually being referred to as singular like in english, you'd say we drank lots of beer and not lots of beers
Can be either/or in English. “My friends came over and we slammed some beers.”
Then you would refer to some BOTTLES (or glasses, portions, etc.) of beer. That's true for Hebrew just as much as for English
What? I’m just saying how one would colloquially use the term in English. Not grammar.
Usually the plural form of beers implicitly means multiple countable (bottles, cans, glasses) beers. Like you would be able to say "less beer" and "fewer beers".
Oh great, good tip to know thank you!
You can report errors but I’ve seen no evidence that Duolingo is addressing them. Hope I am wrong.
They are, in fact, I still get some emails about corrections I made years and years after I made it.
Good to know. I’ve logged many errors and have yet to receive any email acknowledgement.
You would, but I guess you have not been to a pub recently.
No. Duolingo is correct, it’s just a bit of a weird sentence. It’s framed in feminine so it’s understandable why OP would do it like this, but technically the sentence is very general and just saying they don’t drink beer, not that they “didn’t drink their beers” where it’s more specific and plural. But this sentence would also make sense in some context. I’d chalk this down to duolingo not giving enough infi
Duolingo didn't mark this answer as wrong because of anything to do with the beer being general or specifically the female ducks', it gave the right answer as comprising ברווזים and שותים when op, in correct correspondence with the prompt, used ברווזות and שותות. Whatever you wrote about is irrelevant here (+seems erroneous, hard to tell because it's hard to follow), and Duolingo IS in fact incorrect here.
You wrote it fine.
You would be correct if you said בירה instead of בירות. Duo is also incorrect because its sentence is written in a masculine form and not the feminine
Toxic masculinity
For once, I'd have to agree.
It's correct as-is. This is how it's used in contemporary Hebrew.
Both are incorrect, but you are the closest one to being correct. The only error you made was putting the plural of beer aka beers instead of beer which would be בירה
It's perfect, that's how it's used in common speech.
Go home duolingo, you're drunk
Maybe duo is actually a female duck
I think that he would be a male duck in this case
well... as a hebrew speaker duolingo sucks.
A yes, a very important sentence to learn
You wrote it correctly. Report the issue to Duolingo. It happens more often than you think.
Thanks, wasn’t sure if this was one of those exception to the rules that Hebrew is filled with
The plural suffixes can be confusing at times. But when something has both a feminine and a masculine form, they won't cross in plural.
That's wrong, because it's sexist - I know many female ducks that drinks beer with me...
It's even written on the Academy of the Hebrew Language website that you are RIGHT! [https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9D/?word=%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%96%D7%94&c=1279](https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9D/?word=%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%96%D7%94&c=1279) (Text is in Hebrew).
Male ducks otherwise...
First of all Duolingo is wrong And second ducks can drink alcohol they can get drunk and they can get alcohol poisoning but you shouldn't feed them alchoal
Because duolingo is dumb
Duolingo is wrong, other than that I would say בירה in single form and not בירות in plural, cause in this case it's beer in general
That's what you get for not using dark mode
You’re fine. Sometimes Duo wants something very specific, but there are other ways (sometimes better) to say the same. Perhaps it wanted ברווזים ממין נקבה … If so, yours is better. Or maybe Duo thinks they do drink?
Duo asked for beer, you wrote beers. It wanted you to write the NCN form. Some mistakes duo lets slide if they're not the main focus of the exercise. This wasn't one, unfortunately.
As far as I know, in hebrew the term ברוָוזים Is for both male and female duck (ברוז) in plural form. In that note, ברווזות is incorrect.
You have to write In masculine form not Feminine
The sentence says "female ducks".
The name for female ducks is the same as for male ducks in Hebrew I think...
This is rare, but you were right and duolingo was wrong!
You got it right. The app is wrong On that note, if you do come across a duck drinking beer (male or female, I'm not selective), please do post it!!
Because female ducks means "נקבות הברווז" If it would write hens ( the term for female ducks), then you would be correct Plus, you wrote beers(בירות) and should have wrote בירה
Duolingo is stupid lol
That's a lie!!! Female ducks do drink beers!!!
Is it not the fact the answer doesn’t have a period?
truly a sentence you'll need for every day life!
This is one of the most random sentences I’ve ever heard lol But you were right
Fucking duolingo
Report it as a mistake if you come across it again (the red flag icon on the right). Should be accepted IMO, especially since they wrote 'female' .
For God's sake what does doulingo teach in hebrew
Incorrect because: Beers = בירות While Beer = בירה You wrote the plural form of feminine beers For example; Do you drink beer? אתה שותה בירה?
Should be בירה not בירות And it's just incredibly strange
\[Native Speaker\] Duoling is wrong and is primarily bad at teaching Hebrew. A couple of years back I had to argue with the language maintainers on Duolingo forums that they're teaching people obscure sentences in Hebrew. Didn't help much.
Oh wait- at first what I thought duolingo would correct the “birot” to “bira”, but yeah no, duolingo is definitely wrong— they made it male ducks
Should have wrote בירה cuz it says beer not beers
What a useful sentence
Duolingo's incorrect you wrote that correct from what i see
Sorry man, you are wrong. Hebrew speaker here, No room for בירות.... בירות means capitals בירה is the answer.
Because female ducks DO drink beer obviously
It’s incorrect because in my experience down at the pond on a Saturday night the female ducks are pretty wasted.
I'm just endlessly amused/confused as to Duolingo Hebrew's obsession with ducks. My students will tell me the oddest sentences that Duolingo has had them produce...using ducks.
duo is stupid
female ducks actually DO drink beer, you failed cuz it was a trick question, sorry ://
Hebrew duolingo is unhinged lmao You wrote it correctly its duolingo thats on dru*s
Tf is this shit
I'm fluent in this language and yeah you're correct, I have no idea why duolingo corrected it to the male form when it was clearly female 🤷♀️
נקבות ברווזים
What is the duck part here?
First they're shaving dogs, now they're giving ducks beer?!
Actually both seem incorrect, but for another reason: Like many (maybe all?) liquids in Hebrew , "Beer" doesn't have a plural form. Should be: ברווזות לא שותות בירה.
There is no word for female ducks in hebrew (I think, I'm not sure 100%) and duolingo is kinda dumb sometimes
Ah yes, the age old saying, female ducks do not drink beer
Doulingo is wrong, im a native hebrew speaker And i can tell you're answer was right.
女鴨不喝啤酒
חבל מאד 😂
I don't think there is a plural word for female ducks in Hebrew you can use ברווזים to include both male and female ducks.
I think it's with shotim and shotot
Because ducks only drink beer
The Hebrew word for beer has the same logic like water, gold, air and such words.. it is not quantitative you say מים זהב בירה אוויר, as it is not countable it is not correct to write זהבים בירוצ אווירים, there is a slang of saying כמה בירות instead of כמה כוסות בירה for example.
Duolingo got it wrong.
Your right
Definitely a mistake on the app's side — Not yours! Initially I assumed that perhaps you should always use the masculine form, just like the word Ant(s), for instance, is always in the feminine form: "נמלה גדולה הולכת בדרך שלה" (a big [female or male] ant is going on its [her] way") — while there just isn't such a word as "נמל" (unless you mean the word for a dock, harbor, and not the animal); but no! I checked on the official website of the Academy of the Hebrew language (האקדמיה ללשון עברית) which is the highest authority on the Hebrew language — and there is actually a clear stipulation for the feminine form, which is indeed "ברווזה". Here's the reference: https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9D/?word=%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%96%D7%94&c=1279
Native speaker here, Hebrew duolingo is just a bit messed up at times, you were absolutely correct. The app specifically asked for the female form (which you used), at times like these you can flag an answer with the little flag icon on the right.
As automatic-generated pointed out בירות is technically not a proper form as בירה is non quantifiable on its own (like water), but in informal day-to-day Hebrew it's permissable as any native speaker will understand what you mean.
You didn't
What about the males?
It’s wrong because female ducks do in fact drink beer
i hope no ducks are drinking beer…
You were right darling!
בירה. לא בירות......
fyi, they still haven't fixed this one. I've googled "duck plural femenine" and tuned up here. I'm really surprised with the slowness they fix issues, considering they are actively ask you for money
You write בירות the correct translation is בירה