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Sentence #1165297

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sacredceltic sacredceltic October 11, 2011 October 11, 2011 at 8:49:55 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

with forests

sacredceltic sacredceltic October 11, 2011 October 11, 2011 at 9:33:58 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

raw Google results are crap, as you well know. Our own translation mistakes on Tatoeba are in there as well, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy...
If you query Google Books, which is much more trustworthy, reflecting usage by mostly native literate people (although it also features numerous poor translations by non natives) you see that "covered with" outperforms "covered by" 4 to 1. And "covered by" is better suited for insurance or such things, rather than physical overlay. I maintain "covered by" when refering to the forests on the Earth is not the best choice.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #514865Зємлıа покръıта лѣсъı..

The earth is covered by forests.

added by benutzer, October 8, 2011

The earth is covered with forests.

added by sacredceltic, October 11, 2011

linked by perry, October 11, 2011

The earth is covered with forests.

edited by benutzer, October 11, 2011

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