"A little cat."

Translation: חתולה קטנה.

[ChayaDoppelt]

Khatula ktana

[sassfb]

I think that's what I tried: חתולה קתנה. It told me it was a typo and gave the masculine form. Oh! I used the wrong "t". Gets me every time!

[sam.eckmann]

What about חתלתול?

[ChayaDoppelt]

That would be translated as kitten.

[TimaMamono]

It's an adjective exersise, so I think it's implied that small cat should be used, not kitten

[jrp7sen]

Wouldn't this translate as "A cat is little" since "A little cat" should be חתול הקטן?

[danny912421]

No, חתול הקטן doesn't work, it doesn't translate to that. It goes like this:

A small cat - חתול קטן

A cat is small - חתול הוא קטן

The cat is small - החתול קטן

The small cat - החתול הקטן

[zion11dotcom]

male cat version with audio: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/19169158

[ThomasAllenMusic]

Why not הקטן?

[danny912421]

Because it's not "the small cat".

If there is no "the" in English, there won't be ה in Hebrew.

[CarolSimmo4]

i get confused why ה is added sometimes and not other times. Can someone explain why there is an ה on the end of חתולח and another ה on קתנה please. Is it just something you have to remember when it goes on or is there some handy rule?

[danny912421]

Adding ה at the end usually makes the noun, and especially adjectives and verbs feminine. So, חתול is a male cat, חתולה is a female cat. The same way, קטן is masculine adjective and קטנה is feminine adjective.