A Duolingo screenshot with the sentence "Cats purr when they're happy" translated into Japanese.

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   マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 16:59:07 JST マリオ (Mario Menti)

   I love all these onomatopoeia in Japanese (there's loads of them). ごろごろ (goro) is nice and means different things, apart from purring it means rumbling (like thunder) and also "lazing about" .

   In this example, it literally translates as "cats say goro when they're happy" ?