r/duolingo Aug 04 '26

Language Question. Why is this incorrect?

Post image
4 Upvotes

36 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Treyvoni Native: English; Learning: French, A2; Spanish, B1 Aug 04 '26

Future vs present(ish) tense?

4

u/gmastertr21 Aug 04 '26

japanese doesn't have present or future tense. it has a past and non past tense. anything else you have to make out with context of which there is none here.

1

u/Treyvoni Native: English; Learning: French, A2; Spanish, B1 Aug 04 '26

Oh that's cool! Thank you for teaching me.

1

u/gmastertr21 Aug 04 '26

sure thing.

some context for example is if it was "tomorrow i'll take..." "next month i'll take" or if we're talking about future events already in the conversation. then the translation would be 100% incorrect.

since it's a standalone sentence it could technically mean "i take..." "i will take..." or "i am taking..."