"The mountains are beautiful."

Translation: Die Berge sind schön.

[LindaliHer]

I've seen schon spelled with an e on the end sometimes, why?

[MirindaWer]

"schön" can be used as an adverb (Berge sind schön) or an adjective (schöne Berge)

[Debra777966]

Mountains is Berge and Bergen. Why isn't Bergen an acceptable answer here?

[Radhwa.]

Bergen would be the dative form, whereas we needed nominative here.

[JohnPolak]

In an earlier question in this lesson, mountains was translated as Bergen why doesn't this one have an "n" at the end?

[epikulski]

Shouldn't "Gebirge" also be valid?

[requin230]

No, it shouldn't.

die Berge - the mountains

das Gebirge - the mountain range

[MareMonte1]

I don't know how to put the accents on the words

[YaNeZeta]

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.

[thikra238577]

sorry

[Stephen900455]

Why is "Die Berge sind toll" acceptable?

[Mr_Eyl]

'Toll' means 'great' or 'fantastic'.

[doublelingot]

awesome, great, groovy, fantastic, super, stunning

[BAIT24]

Most likely because "toll" means "great" or "wonderful".

[onlydraven]

Why isnt Die Berg sind schön acceptable

[PopSixSquish]

That is only saying a (one) mountain is beautiful, and this is asking for mountains plural.

[JudithNewk]

I type it correctly. My device inserts an "e."

[IchbinYash]

Can this as well be 'Schön sind die Berge'?

[deactivated user]

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"

[IchbinYash]

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' ??

[MirindaWer]

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.

[bhavya66835]

Why is schöne nit acceptable

[Renfield3]

Schöne meaning lovely. Und Schön meaning beautiful.
Und schon without umlaut is also different ..like schon wieder, schon mal, kommt schon

[MirindaWer]

That's not true. "Schöne" ist an adjective, "schön" is an adverb. The meaning is the same.

[deactivated user]

I am jealous because in German, they only have to spell schön... but we English speakers have to spell out Beautiful! like BrUh xD

[Privvet1]

The burgers are beautiful

[xPopZx]

Tablet won't do umlaut so frustrating marks it wrong

[YaNeZeta]

Type "schoen" instead. That's perfectly acceptable German!

[michael.a.travis]

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

[MirindaWer]

If my understanding of the English language is correct, the mountains can only be translated as "das Gebirge", singular form

[Radhwa.]

I believe "die Gebirge" translates better to mountain range rather than mountains

[HashimAhmad]

Im dumb whats Berge vs Bergen?

[Radhwa.]

well, in this case we had to use the nominative version of mountains, which is "berge". you would say "bergen" if the case was dative.

[AshleeSara3]

How do people remember different die/der/das for every single thing...its impossible unless its plural!