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- "The mountains are beautiful."
"The mountains are beautiful."
Translation:Die Berge sind schön.
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Mountains is Berge and Bergen. Why isn't Bergen an acceptable answer here?
In an earlier question in this lesson, mountains was translated as Bergen why doesn't this one have an "n" at the end?
Seen on another thread, it's because you need the nominative here. Bergen is dative I think.
If you do Duolingo on your phone, you can just hold down the letter.
If you're on Windows, use the Character Map app to find them. Ä, ä, Ö ö, Ü and ü all have Alt code shortcuts that you can learn.
I'm afraid I don't know about Mac or Linux.
Schöne meaning lovely. Und Schön meaning beautiful. Und schon without umlaut is also different ..like schon wieder, schon mal, kommt schon
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That's not true. "Schöne" ist an adjective, "schön" is an adverb. The meaning is the same.
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That is only saying a (one) mountain is beautiful, and this is asking for mountains plural.
I think so... I might be wrong... but you are saying the same thing... "Schön Sind die Berge"="Beautiful are the mountains"="Die Berge Sind schön"
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If the mountains were singular, does the case matter when we move the parts of the sentence back and forth? Which one of these us right? -> ' schön ist der Berg' or is it ' schön ist den Berg' ??
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The case stays the same no matter the word order. "Schön ist der Berg" would be correct, but is only be used in speech (rarely) or poems.
I am jealous because in German, they only have to spell schön... but we English speakers have to spell out Beautiful! like BrUh xD
Why is "die Gebirge" unacceptable for "the mountains?" After Duo rejected it, I looked it up in Wiktionary, which gives "mountains" as its 3rd definition. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gebirge
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If my understanding of the English language is correct, the mountains can only be translated as "das Gebirge", singular form
