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It seems that is just a poetic form that you may find in books rather than day to day language
Cause most people don't really say Alle anymore they like to keep it short. And if you would say Alle it wouldn't be "All die schönen Pferde" but "Alle schönen Pferde" the artical (die) + All = Alle But this ISN'T always in use.
If this sentence is translated as 'these' beautiful horses why is the article in German 'die' and not ' diese'
Both would be possible.
der, die, das are related to "that", but they are often used more widely in German and can be used for closer things ("this") as well.
dieser, diese, dieses (dies) are specifically "this, these".
So All diese schönen Pferde would also be possible, but not necessary, for the meaning "All these beautiful horses".
Cause the plural form is always die in German and the are saying "all these horses" which means "All die Pferde"
is All english typo -glitch....does anybody german speaking actually use all and not alle...allen....?
Yes, all is frequently used without an ending in German.
See e.g. http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/all , where several of the examples have alternatives both with gender/number/case ending and without, e.g. "all[e] diese" meaning that both "all diese" and "alle diese" are possible.
If you got this in a listening exercise, you have to write what you hear, not a synonym that would also make grammatical sense.
Then I don't know how you landed on this sentence discussion page, which is "translate German to English" and/or "listen to German", as far as I can tell.
Report it as "my sentence should be accepted" if you come across it again.
It isn't wrong but you would say "Alle schönen Pferde" insted of "All die schönen Pferde" the artical just mixes itself with All
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Because the adjective is after the definite article die, so it takes weak inflection -- which has the ending -en in the plural.
...But why is it 'die' and not 'diese'? The sentence is "All these beautiful horses".
Can 'die' be used as a demonstrative adjective instead of just a definite article?
Can 'die' be used as a demonstrative adjective instead of just a definite article?
That’s right.
In English, the two split up into separate words (with “that” related to das and “the” related to der) but in German, all the various forms of that word still do double duty as both demonstrative adjective and definite article (and demonstrative pronoun, for that matter).
As you may know the articals are die-der-das in german and it would be 'das Pferd' in singular but the plural form is always 'die' and it is in the plural so you use 'die Pferde' 'schön(en) (pretty/beautiful) is an adjectiv that describs the noun a bit more
"All the fine horses" was not accepted. I thought "fine" was a reasonable translation of "schönen", along with beautiful, pretty and handsome ...
Schöner means handsome....as in Hallo Schöner! so why isn't All die schönen Pferde translatable as all these handsome horses?
When you're learning a different language, it's rarely the case that one word "means" one other word in the other language in the sense that the first word can always be replaced with the other one in all cases where the first language uses that word -- words often have a range of meanings and the equivalent(s) in the other language may not have the same range.
So something like Schöner can also mean handsome, can't it? Why not here? is often a better approach than flat-out saying schöner means handsome.
That said, "handsome horses" sounds like a possible option to me, and I've added it now.
Schöner can also be used in "Was ein schöner Tag" which means "What a beautiful day" schön -> Adjektiv (schön-schöner-am schönsten) english translation pretty -> adjectiv (pretty-prettier-the prettiest)
It is true that schön is used and translated into different words but it is npt the word for handsome
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'handsome' would be correct in Cornwall, but not the UK as a whole. I put 'fine' as I would not use the word 'beautiful' for a horse, but I would for a parrot.
Just to say, I'm from Gloucestershire originally and now live in the North West, and I'm not aware of the usage of the word "handsome" being limited to Cornwall. I use it myself occasionally, for such things as horses, dogs and birds. I might even say "He's a handsome fellow" about a man. (Admittedly I am 58 and may be a bit old school".)
