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Question

I was on clozemaster.com and the following sentence came up. "Bitte, ___ es." The translation read.. "Yes, please do." So filled in the blank with tu. It was mark incorrect and said the correct answer was "Bitte, tut es." Why is this correct? Wouldn't that mean "please, it does" instead of "yes, please do"? Is this just an idiom I don't understand?

Answer 1

Hi Mark - the distinction here is whether or not the party being spoken to is "du" or "ihr". If the party being addressed were "du" then "tue" would be the correct form of the imperative (not "tu"). It seems like this website you are studying with may have intended for the addressee to be identified as "ihr", in which case the correct form of the imperative would indeed be "tut".

I'm not familiar with the website you mentioned, but a good way to weed out websites that may not be helping you learn German as much as you think they are is to evaluate whether they are sufficiently distinguishing between the different modes of address in German (du, ihr, Sie, etc.). Hope this helps!