"היינות טעימים."

Translation: The wines are tasty.

[parchee]

I feel there is no need to use the plural of wine and beer in this situation. 'The wine is tasty' can indeed refer to a collection of wine. To me, it also seems like the most natural way to say this.

[BezalelP]

You would use it if you are in a wine tasting and you want to say that (all) the wines are tasty. Or if you're a waiter in a restaurant and someone asks you what's better - the wines or the beers.

[Mabel544786]

Maybe it is implied that there are more than one kind of wine on the table?

[avipars]

I agree. I never heard of היינות before. I always used the sinigular

[Neshariym]

I agree.

[Guitardude2000]

Wouldn't the plural gender of ׳טעים׳ agree with that of ׳יין׳ ?

So it'd be ׳יינות טעימות׳?

[BezalelP]

yes, יין is masculine.

[1011370479]

if יין is masculine then why is the plural יינות and not something like
יינים

[BezalelP]

Because it's one of the irregulars.

[1011370479]

then if I see a new word,how will i know if its an irregular

[gbdrbob]

Check a dictionary or wait for duolingo to correct you and then memorise it.

[vaitudotremer]

You don't... That's the reason it called "irregular"

[RoseDark94]

ha'yainot tayimim

[zion11dotcom]

• yeinot te-imim

[Mabel544786]

Greatfull for learning the pronounciation of this one! I didn' t know the vocal changed from ai to ei when making the word wine to wines!

[AbbyBieler]

Delicious should be acceptable as well as tasty

[Hsn626796]

Why is the singular "ta-eem" while the plural "te-imeem" ?
Is there a way or rule to follow by which we can know how to change the pronounciation of letters once suffixes are added ?

[dac_avila]

Well, so far I've noticed many words that have and "a" sound change to an "e" sound when they're plural, and vice-versa... don't know if that's just a coincidence though

[schyrsivochter]

Please don’t write /i/ as <ee>, that is English-y and ambiguous and also looks just weird.

[Natalia754514]

The rule in Hebrew is to place the stress on the last syllable.

[simon187836]

The tasty wines is as grammatically correct as the wines are tasty.

[danny912421]

Yes, both are grammatically correct, but two different things:

The tasty wines - היינות הטעימים

The wines are tasty - היינות טעימים

Only the second one is correct here.