"The horn lies in the meadow."

Translation: Das Horn liegt auf der Wiese.

[Lafayette94th]

What animal in English is called a horn? A ram?

[SimoneBa]

The horn is a musical instrument. It could also be the horn(s) of an animal, of course, but that's not very likely. Though with Duolingo, you never quite know...

[Lafayette94th]

I'm a native English speaker from the U.S. Certainly, one could leave a musical instrument in a meadow, big based on the context, it seemed likely that they meant a horned animal. There are bighorn sheep, for example. And many American sports teams are nicknamed Rams, for this reason!

[Puett]

in der - in the; auf der - on the. Duo does not accept 'in der'. You might say: Das Horn liegt auf dem Gras in der Wiese.

[-Copernicus-]

You can't use a word-for-word translation here. English uses "in" for a meadow and German uses "auf." Which makes some sense since the horn is in fact on top of the grass of the meadow.

[Fatschnaus]

Actually in German it could also be "in der Wiese" and should also be accepted.

[WandererBo]

Also, Weise can be used as "way", like for example "in this way, thus, = auf diese Wiese", so again with auf. As discussed elsewhere, local/time prepositions in German are inherent of place/time.

[Barrbelle]

Perhaps this is referring to the Mother Goose nursery rhyme? "Little boy Blue, come blow your horn; the sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. But where is the boy who looks after the sheep? He's under the haystack fast asleep."

[Aeronautix]

Note that "der" is used in "auf der Wiese" because "Wiese" is feminine and in the dative. A very nice exercise.

• Das Horn liegt auf der Wiese.