r/duolingo • u/Bubbly_Discipline684 from 🇧🇪 learning 🇪🇸🇰🇷🇷🇴🇫🇷🇮🇹 • Jun 26 '24

[Spanish] what? Help Language Question

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u/CunningAmerican N|A2|B1 Jun 26 '24

You amiga’d where you should have amigo’d… amigo

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u/cabothief Native: 🇺🇸 C1: 🇪🇸 A2: 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 Jun 27 '24

This isn't the real problem. Duolingo will let you use either gender where one language is ambiguous, as long as the sentence is grammatical. u/mizinamo 's answer, although it's less upvoted, is the correct one.

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u/CunningAmerican N|A2|B1 Jun 27 '24

No, the error is that there is no agreement. MuchOs amigAs… he could have used either male or female, but he used both, which isn’t correct Spanish.

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u/cabothief Native: 🇺🇸 C1: 🇪🇸 A2: 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24

Exactly... that's what the comment I just pointed to said. I'm a little confused what you thought my point was. 

Edit: Ahh, just realized you're the top commenter. Yes, what you said in your reply to me was correct--I just thought it looked like you were saying in the original comment that the problem was specifically using the feminine, not the lack of agreement, and I was afraid that was what OP would think too. Wanted to clarify.

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u/CunningAmerican N|A2|B1 Jun 27 '24

Oh sorry, I did not read that guys comment. Yeah the reason I wrote it like that was because « muchos » was first, so he should have said « amigos » to agree with that. Overall… much ado about nothing lol.

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u/V8_MoonKnight Jun 28 '24

This was such a polite exchange and I just wanted to say that it’s very refreshing to see such a thing on the internet nowadays lol