"הנשים יפות."

Translation: The women are pretty.

[Guitardude2000]

Why shouldn't it be "the pretty women" ? Or would that be הנשים היפות?

[Spirit300]

yes
the women are pretty = הנשים יפות
the pretty women = הנשים היפות

[Guitardude2000]

Ahhh, so if the noun is definite, then the adjective needs to be definite too!

[CaptainValiant]

I know this is the grammar, but I keep forgetting!
Any tips to help remember the distinction?
Toda.

[FriedrichXVI]

You find Introduction to adjectives here:

https://www.duolingo.com/skill/he/Introduction-to-adjectives

If on mobile: Request desctop site!

[alonnn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZVxwt0xRsc

[TwinButterfly11]

i agree

[AgentFoxba]

The beautiful women was also rejected. Is יפות not beautiful and pretty?

[ZevCyprys]

Yeh I'm with you

[LeahLapidus]

Ok so יפות and יפה have been translated as "beautiful" throughout all these lessons - all of a sudden i am wrong and its now translated as "pretty"??? Crazy. Besides, both english words mean basically tge same thing.

[TeribleT]

You need to know how to say both

[rose872073]

You have to say the woman is pretty or the womans are pretty

[danny912421]

"women", not "womans", which is incorrect English.

[JoelStoltz]

Why can't it be the woman are beautiful?

[danny912421]

The womEn are beautiful.

Duolingo is very strict on not mixing womAn and womEn. I've lost count how many times I was dinged for making this mistake.

[gerti42]

Due to audio, I feel my answer should be accepted to the audio only question. I wrote: הן נשים יפות.

[danny912421]

Not really. Tha audio says "ha-nashim" - he pronounces the "A" in "ha" very clearly. Your example would make it "hen nashim".

[Zohar153972]

How is "The women are handsome" wrong. The only difference in these lessons between handsome and pretty is in genders, which is absolute BS

[danny912421]

Typically in English, "handsome" is not used for women.