電気がつきません。

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#1

The electricity doesn’t work.

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#2

Yes, but 電気 also refers to lights.

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#3

I’m a Japanese native speaker. 電気がつきません means “the light doesn’t work”. The word-for-word translation is “I cannot turn on the light.” 電気 in this context doesn’t mean “electricity”.

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