I am very well (translation error)

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This is a translation error.

The Memrise expected answer for translation: Mir geht es sehr gut.
The direct, literal translation: It goes me very well.

The correct word order is: Es geht mir sehr gut.

Unless you want to tell every high school german student (and their native born instructors) that they were taught incorrectly…

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“Mir geht es sehr gut.” is normal everyday German though. I’m not sure if it’s 100% grammatically sound but that’s the way people talk in Germany all the time. It might also depend on dialect, but I wouldn’t call that wrong, both examples work just fine.

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“both examples work fine” is my point - either answer should be accepted, as they are both correct.

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Ah, I see what you mean, sorry. You’re right of course.

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Was this problem in an official memrise course?

I am just doing some “forum housekeeping” and due to the new split of Decks community courses and official memrise courses, there are now separate forums for Decks and memrise courses.

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It was in a formal course.

All the best,

~Mark

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I don’t know what you mean by a “formal” course, I am afraid. Can you tell me who created the course that contains the problem?

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Memrise created the course… I picked the A1 level (I think) and worked through it.

I do not remember seeing anything that would indicate it was a “custom” or community course from one of the Memrise members.

Respectfully,

~ Mark

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Thank you for the information!