"Unsere Katzen lesen Zeitungen."

Translation: Our cats are reading newspapers.

[georgios210085]

"meowspapers"

[AmaterasuChi]

Is this an idiom or something ?

[mizinamo]

No - it's just a slightly silly sentence to practise vocabulary and grammar.

[spacer5]

Translating "lesen" does not require the present progressive tense ("are reading"). "Our cats read the newspapers" should also be a correct answer.

[mizinamo]

"the newspapers" (i.e. some specific newspapers) would be die Zeitungen, but that's not what the German sentence says.

"Our cats read newspapers" (without "the") should be accepted.

[rphdrgn85]

This sentences keep gerrinf weirder. I love it.

[d4ri0restrep0]

Come on, Duolingo! you can do better... The sentences should be more pragmatic and align with real interactions.

[SuncevaSvetlost]

The meaning is not possible.

[Magrat9]

Your correction insists on the english present continuous tense but the simple present should be correct too.

[Mary335319]

Why not unser?

[mizinamo]

Why not unser?

Because unser is used before masculine or neuter nouns, but Katzen is plural.