A question about the study question 「彼女は____たよ。」

Bunpro
#1

How are you supposed to enter the answer here? It wants the past tense verb for leave, but wants just the " さっ" portion as the response, rather than " さった". So, is the intended input here to have to type a double consonant after “sa” on keyboard by typing /xtu/? (I know how to do this on mobile flick, which is easier than remembering this keyboard shortcut to enter just the “っ”).

Simplified: Why are we made to input さっ here and not さった? It’s weird and the first time I’ve encountered this in the system.

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#2

Typing x + つ will give you っ !

#3

xtu gets turned to っ yes, I think its the shortest input way to type it.

#4

Thanks peeps-- I was able to search how to type it and explained I knew that in the top post (I guess I was misleading with the opening sentence). What I’m curious about is why this answer is unlike others I’ve entered until this point, where instead of typing the fully conjugated verb, I’m only entering the " さっ" portion.

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#5

Meanwhile me, always writing [tta] or [kka] or anything of this kind and hitting backspace anytime I need a small っ :smiley:

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#6

typically, if you file answers who need to end on a っ as a bug on the interface, they will fix it, because it’s not intended behaviour. Normally the whole word is accepted as an alternate answer, too - simply because it’s easier to type.

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#7

I think the reason for only writing “さっ” on not “さった” is that you already have “た” in the sentence ( _たよ). I’m new to this so I might be wrong :slight_smile:

#8

さった would be 1 thing and よ would be ender (I’m N4~ so might be wrong).
linking the grammar point would probably be helpful, to someone somewhere.