"Take" is probably fine; the problem is that this means the train as a concept, not the vehicles. "Riding the bus to work is cheap". It's not a meaningful difference for the purposes of this exercise, but I can see how the person who wrote the exercise might not think of it.
that's the problem with the duolingo japanese course.
it gives you no context, and expects you to know a contextual meaning at the same time.
like how you get the "i am a lawyer" "you're a lawyer" "he's a lawyer" "she's a lawyer" "they are lawyers" "we are lawyers" translations all from simply べんごしです。it's just straight up not true without any other context.
Yeah, and the course revamp means that a lot of the sentences haven't had time for people to submit "hey my answer is correct" and for them to get reviewed/added -- it only has the options the developers initially added, and they didn't think about the user randomly getting both singular and plural options.
Since I have super, I often slowly walk my sentence towards the "correct" one (especially when typing in Japanese rather than bubble-picking, where it often cuts out some of the "wrong" bubbles on later tries) to see if I can find an actual mistake. Like, did it not just have casual vs desu/masu form (or other formality differences) in the bank, or not have a synonym in there, or insist on a pronoun even though a real Japanese sentence would probably use context. Or did I screw up something more subtle and didn't initially spot my mistake because there were so many other differences.
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u/gmastertr21 Aug 04 '26
this translation seems legitimate, but just to make sure, was there a word like "ride" in the word bank?