"The horn lies in the meadow."
Translation:Das Horn liegt auf der Wiese.
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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...
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!
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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."
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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.
