"Ich esse eine Orange."
Translation:I eat an orange.
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The German's starting to effect my English. I'll sometimes think tea is spelled tee, write wine as wein, or write 'This Orange is amazing."
It was so difficult to me when I started to study English after Germany language. German language brokes your mind, your pronounce. My first language is Russian.
The audio for Orange sounds French, is this actually how it is pronounced? Does anyone have an IPA transcription or something I could look at?
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From what I've read, it is supposed to be like a French r, pronounced toward the throat, but cleaner.
Orange is a feminine word. Einen is used when a masculine word is being acted upon.
When I pronounce "Ich," I always imagine I am hissing like a cat. That's me, though.
The = der/die/das A = ein/eine
"The" is used for a specific orange. In English it's called a definite article. "A" could refer to any orange. We call it an indefinite article.
http://www.englishpage.com/articles/a-an-vs-the.htm
Hope this helps!
There is no difference in German -- there is only one present tense, not separate simple and continuous ones.
The ''orange pronounciation sounds weird because it sounds more french than german
whenever the lady says orange it kinda sounds like shes trying to say orangutan. just saying.
Why is it "I eat an orange" but not "i am eating an orange"?
Both of those are good translations of the German sentence.
How can we know that the noun is feminine ,neuter or masculine?
- Look it up in a dictionary
- It's impossible to guess the gender (in general), so any dictionary will (have to) tell you the gender of each noun
- Memorise the answer