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Think of it as this: Haus = House ; Tir = Animal. House Animal, Which is a pet. German tends to be literal :)
I believe its "Tier" and when plural "Tiere" making "Haustier" und "Haustiere" but you are right with the rest of it
I would of thought that trinkt would change to ftrinkt, or something because essen changes to fressen for animals.
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no, it does not. Trinken (er trinkt, es trinkt) is used for both humans (human animals) and animals. Essen (er isst, sie isst) is used for Humans, fressen ( es frisst, der Hund frisst, die Katzen fressen) for animals. Essen does not change to fressen. They are separate verbs. Sort of like: to be and to exsist.
No, in German the great animals saufen, only the smaller ones and the pets trinken.
So I got this wrong because I used present continuous tense, but I got a previous one wrong because I used present tense. Where's the consistency?
Translates to "animal" but when I got it wrong, it stated correct translation was "beast"?
The sound is not working. I am having to guess and come back to the statement.
