"Das Ei, die Eier."

Translation:The egg, the eggs.

January 6, 2013

Couldn't the correct answer also be "that egg, those eggs" or "this egg, these eggs"?

No that would then be diese oder dieses oder dieser I believe. "der", "die" and "das" all literally translate to "the".

The best should always be this way at first!

This type of sentence is really helpful for remembering genders, articles and plurals, I'd love to see more examples of this please!

Very very nice thing! I will suggest it in the Feedback field straight away!

Exactly, every new or solo word should be like this. It helps a lot.

Why is egg feminine in plural form?

all plural nouns are "die"

All of them? no exceptions? this would be very helpful for my memorization/learning of der/die/das.

Yes. All nouns use "die" in their plural form, regardless of the gender of the singular form.

der Mann, die Männer

das Ei, die Eier

die Katze, die Katzen

Edit: I forgot to mention that when you learn about dative and genitive cases, the rules are a little different.

I cant think of a context where this would make sense in English