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- "He eats an orange."
"He eats an orange."
Translation:Er isst eine Orange.
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I'm so confused with the feminine and masculine and how to know what the difference is. Das, der, die, eine, ein....When i think I've got it figured out...The orange is feminine.
The object is not feminine.
But the word for it, Orange, is feminine.
Noun gender is pretty arbitrary. There's no "reason" why Gabel ("fork") is feminine, Löffel ("spoon") is masculine, or Messer ("knife") is masculine.
Words themselves are pretty arbitrary. Tables have four legs, but the word "table" does not have any legs -- no little lines reaching below the line of writing as in "p q".
No, not for countable items that are used in the singular, as here.
I think there's two differences, one is fressen and frisst are both used to usually go along with talking about animals eating, or if someone eats in an unpleasant of fast way (like an animal) frisst or fressen may be used, while esst and essen are correctly used when talking about people. I believe there may be another difference involving the words er/sie in context, but I'm not sure. Hope this helps.
But in this article we re talking about a person and duolingo says fressen
somehow i got it wrong because i wrote ist instead of isst, im like common couldn't you give me the point!!!
Can we get some professional knowledge dropped on us about this. No one in this thread seems to know.
Yes. ihr esst means "you eat" (when speaking to more than one person).
Yes! That makes more sense. Plural. Wir und sie essen, as plural und ihr esst as plural. Got it. Thanks!
Can anyone explain Why einen apfel And eine orange
Apfel is masculine
Orange is feminine
And both are nouns and should be capitalised.
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No, because the orange is 'die Orange' the apple is 'der Apfel' Ihr esst einen Apfel Ihr esst eine Orange
The gender assigned to the fruit Orange is feminine. Therefore, "eine" is used in the sentence.
"Other times, the genders are pretty randomly assigned." https://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/gr/no_02.html
In orange the g sounds like a French j...Are there other words where the g is the pronounced like a French j?
Are there other words where the g is the pronounced like a French j?
Sure -- other French loanwords such as Garage (second g) or Genie.
Does anyone have a way for me to remember the difference between isst, esst, esse, and essen? I can never remember.
Why orange is sometimes eine and other times einen. One sentence i wrote einen, and correct answer was eine, so next sentence i remembered that and wrote eine, but then the correct answer was einen! This drives me crazy and i feel like it is impossible to learn these.
Why orange
It's Orange, not orange -- nouns are always capitalised.
is sometimes eine and other times einen
die Orange is feminine, so you can have eine Orange (an orange) or einer Orange (of/to an orange) but never einen Orange.
