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tipsku Jan 2024 10:26pm, 8 Jan 2024 3,811 posts	Quote Pin tipsku Where is the otter? [Welsh has a really cute word for otter, dyfrgi, which translates as 'water dog'. Awwww JCB, so you're saying that they are using essen instead of fressen for animals in Duolingo? Generally speaking, that's not very common. As a native speaker of Germany, I normally use fressen when I talk about animals eating something. This said, there is a tendency to use essen when speaking about what pets eat as opposed to animals in general. E.g. commercials for pet food would use 'essen' or Nahrung = nutrition instead of Futter (food) when they advertise their brand-new dog food formula or something like that. I have noticed that pets are treated more like people in these contexts so that their owners get the impression that the company takes the well-being of their pets seriously. So it could also be more common for pet owners to use the words associated with humans because that's what they hear.]
tipsku Jan 2024 10:29pm, 8 Jan 2024 3,812 posts	Quote Pin tipsku Dylan's relatives don't like parsnips. [*follow-up to the above: stupid autocorrect, it added an unwanted -y at the end of German and I was too invested in writing the comment to notice 🙄]
JCB Jan 2024 12:09pm, 9 Jan 2024 5,396 posts	Quote Pin JCB [Thanks tipsku. That could be the context, as, if I remember correctly, it was referring to dogs and cats. The added y still actually makes sense. 🙂]
GregP Jan 2024 8:46am, 10 Jan 2024 150,130 posts	Quote Pin GregP Duolingo getting a bit of a kicking on BBC R4 Today right now for replacing human translators with AI.
JCB Jan 2024 12:00pm, 10 Jan 2024 5,409 posts	Quote Pin JCB Do you run ten kilometres every day?
JCB Jan 2024 12:44pm, 10 Jan 2024 5,416 posts	Quote Pin JCB How do you day dog in German? [from the Spanish course]
JCB Jan 2024 12:45pm, 10 Jan 2024 5,417 posts	Quote Pin JCB [That should have been "How do you say ..."]
Night-owl Jan 2024 3:01pm, 10 Jan 2024 44,697 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl
panad Jan 2024 8:19pm, 10 Jan 2024 3,690 posts	Quote Pin panad He removes his clothes before doing the housework.
RichHL Jan 2024 8:32pm, 10 Jan 2024 22,940 posts	Quote Pin RichHL Do you also hear a frightening scream?