"My pants?"

Translation: Meine Hosen?

[jahudam]

It says that both "Meine Hose" and "Meine Hosen" are acceptable translations...
Is this because Hosen is plural, and die Hose is "one pair of pants"?

[christian]

Usually, "eine Hose" is one pair of pants (trousers) and "Hosen" are several pairs of pants. Apparently, though, some people do refer to a single pair of pants as "Hosen". This doesn't make any sense to me, but there's nowt so queer as folk.

[cavakun]

Strangely enough we had this discussion yesterday in the spanish forum, i don't know if this quirk in the languages is somehow related. http://duolingo.com/#/comment/107545