"Du trinkst Tee."

Translation: You drink tea.

[harryclark17]

Wow, the way the speaker pronounces "Tee" sounds so much like an English speaker.

[woodsandwater]

My German relatives and my high school German teacher all pronounced it "tay".

[S0b3rxSk1n]

How is this not "You drink tea"? I thought "trinkst" covers both the present and the progressive.

[wataya]

It does. Both solutions should be accepted.

[AmirGorji]

I've written "you drink tea" and it accepted.

[luarango1203]

Exactly! In german doesn't exist "the present continuos", so in this case, it represents both things: simple and continuos .

[emmaviola8]

The pronunciation sounds very English and not at all similar to the way my German teachers from Germany (3 of them) say it.

[neuromint]

I totally agree!

[Jin21]

Just curious but why does Tee have a masculine prefix?

[Dusty_G]

Whats the difference between Du and Ihr?

[neuromint]

Du is you (singular), Ihr is you (plural).

[venubharadwaz]

Du is simply "you" and Ihr is you (Plural) and also addressing second person with respect.

[Mel-Mac]

Du is you singular (one person), Ihr is you plural (you all), Sie is you singular but formal and Sie is also they.

[mizinamo]

Sie is you formal -- can be either singular or plural.

Herr Schmidt, trinken Sie Tee?

Frau Meier und Frau Schulz, trinken Sie Tee?

[piegilroy]

As du is the familiar tense and not polite, why is this the first 'you' to learn and not the 'polite' form?

[ArifChishti]

"You are taking tea" or "You take tea" should be accepted.

[deactivated user]

The only time Americans "take" tea is when they're sayng what they want to drink. "What would you like?" "I'll take tea." If they're consuming tea, they use "drink."

[drewstah]

Is that the correct pronunciation of "tee"?

[wataya]

yes

[JRPlanet]

I was taught (a lonnnnggggg time ago in high school) that it was pronounced more like "tay". Is that not correct?

[DeathRodent]

I was just wondering if you would change anything to make "Du trinkst Tee." into a question. So instead of "you drink tea." Make it ask "You drink tea?"

[SchwartzDylan]

Like in English, you can simply say the same sentence in a different tone to signify a question.
For example, watching a football game on TV and a player makes a really good catch... "He caught that?" The replay then shows he caught it, "He caught that."
"Du trinkst Tee."="You drink tea." "Du trinkst Tee?"="You drink tea?"
However, the actual "correct question format" would be "Trinkst du Tee?"= "Do you drink tea?"

[aujamal20]

"You take tea" is there problem with translation?

[1mohammad]

what is definite article of tee?

[mizinamo]

Tee is masculine: der Tee.

[Paige284645]

I almost put good in front of tea. Would it accept good in front of the word tea if I put it down?

[mizinamo]

No, because the German sentence doesn't say anything about the tea being good.

[RachelCollins114]

Ok german accents really dont wanna cooperate with me. How the heck am I supposed to say "Trinkst"

[ShaelynnKl]

It should be a soft ehh for tea not englisch with hard e