"Deine größten Hähnchen sind schwarz."

Translation: Your biggest chickens are black.

[flosal]

actually, "Hähnchen" could be seen as a diminutive form of "Hahn", the male counterpart to a "hen", which in english is colloquially called a "cock".
I would suggest asking about "Hühnchen" or "Hühner" to avoid any confusion ^^

[LiamHuber]

Yeah, I wondered for this reason whether maybe the folks at Duo are trolling us...

[amuzulo]

We know Hähnchen is plural because of the "Deine" in this sentence. It confused me at first too, but that's why it's here to help us learn this! :)

[lieryan]

also because of sind instead of ist.

[AdriaanRetief]

It all comes to this: if hähnchen translated to cocks, the sentence would be 'Your biggest cocks are black..'

[extralucas]

"Your biggest cocks are black." works here. ;)

[XoooOverdose]

Well....that's awkwardly hilarious.

[Truerepentance]

Confirmed. Lol

[AriesKeller]

bahahahahaaha

[check2012]

According to my grammar sheet, a word like "young" has the comparative/superlative forms of: "jung, jünger, am jüngsten" = "young, younger, youngest." But the "-en" we have here on "größten" is due to the plurality of our subject, while the "t" is due to "größten" being in the superlative form, right?

I wonder why my sheet has "-en" attached to the superlative form by default. Also, what's with the "am" that's supposedly attached to the superlative? It's not in this sentence.

[Jasper8713]

It also depends on whether or not the superlative is before or after the word it is describing (the biggest chickens vs the chickens are the biggest).

[BLPK]

Is there any rule about the S vs the ß? About where it's used, difference in pronunciation? or ???

[srg_slp]

When does one use größte vs größten? Does it have to do with gender/plurality?

[idshanks]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_adjectives

This Wikipedia article is a pretty good reference for adjective endings.

[boky84]

That's racist! :)

[mattmillersa]

I used "largest" and it was marked wrong ?