"Das Tier trinkt."

Translation: The animal drinks.

[PurePazaak]

So "the pet drinks" is wrong? Can't 'Tier' mean animal or pet?

[GregTrotter]

I think pet is Haustier

[myra]

Usually:
das Tier = the animal,
das Haustier = the pet

[abdullahkh15]

Think of it as this: Haus = House ; Tir = Animal. House Animal, Which is a pet. German tends to be literal :)

[RebornBeetle]

I believe its "Tier" and when plural "Tiere" making "Haustier" und "Haustiere" but you are right with the rest of it

[Zombiebrai1]

tier means animal

[malaknazih]

Tier means animal
Haustier means pet
You may be true

[HamzaRiz]

I would of thought that trinkt would change to ftrinkt, or something because essen changes to fressen for animals.

[Katja-z]

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.

[Richard538268]

No, in German the great animals saufen, only the smaller ones and the pets trinken.

[MeriborRessick]

What do you mean by, "the great animals" ...?

[MeriborRessick]

Oh, that explains a ton

[Zombiebrai1]

????

[Tarka98]

Translates to "animal" but when I got it wrong, it stated correct translation was "beast"?

[Ana328936]

Tier cant mean pet,only animal

[MeriborRessick]

How would you say, "You drink like an animal."

[sahand_7]

Animal
Not drink

[Zombiebrai1]

tiere trinken

[Damacline]

Was zum teuffel

[ph.nzDEZB]

I am the boss of this language

[jamesproper]

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?

[Amit292741]

You may have made a mistake and referred to the plural form "Animals".

[Hector290697]

I actually knew what "tier" means. Danke, Ramms+ein!

[VaibhavR09]

Instead of "The animal drinks", can It also mean "That animal is drinking"?

[gejemica]

Absolutely

[catmat4]

HI I put : the animal is drinking - why is this incorrect please? :)

[MarceloMagioli]

Why Tier is written with capital letters?

[Zombiebrai1]

in german all nouns are in caps

[SeanFogart4]

. . . so any animal in German is a deer that sauft/trinkt? Deer's the related word in English, apparently . . .

[dirgenie]

Wann muss ich schreiben: The animal drinks" und wann:"The animal is drinking"?
Kann mir jemand den Unterschied sagen? Vielen Dank! Dirgenie

[SecretlyAHippo]

I heard "Das deer (English word) trinkt". Anyone else?

[canadian76]

"The ambiguous animal drinks" would work better, in my opinion

[landinojones]

Is there a reason, "The animal is drinking." would be incorrect? In the past Duolingo has allowed both translations. Something might be slipping past me.

[Closureyes]

I propose to make 'the animal is drinking' the default translation

[benesposito]

Could this also be translated as "That animal drinks?"

[JavierRica396227]

The pet is drinking is not accepted?