critmarie

[vocal flare]

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[round bramble]

It's not just because I didn't use prenez-vous, right? because to my understanding they are equivalent

[plucky zinc]

The thing is if you deviate a bit too much from what duo thinks is the answer it’ll mark it wrong

They are not equivalent

Vous is formal and tu is informal

But you changed that and also you forgot the hyphen between petit and déjeuner

But yeah tu prends is acceptable here

[round bramble]

Wait, prenez-vous and vous prenez aren't equivalent?

[plucky zinc]

Ah wait

My bad I misread it lol

Yes they are equivalent

And it’s acceptable here

[graceful dagger]

Vous prenez need a "?" at the end of the sentence, if not it's not a question

[round bramble]

Oh yeah, I just reviewed the lesson, and the question just before it was correct so duolingo just messed up i think

[plucky zinc]

Duo just isn’t good at handling cases when your answer id correct but deviates

Oh lol

Duolingo usually doesn’t care about question marks

[round bramble]

yeah I leave the question mark out of laziness hehe

[plucky zinc]

But you missed the accent as well

So it marked it as incorrect

If you have one thing missing it won’t care

But two or more and it’s brain stops working

[round bramble]

Thanks for the help y'all!