"Ihr lest unsere Zeitung."

Translation: You are reading our newspaper.

[RPD85]

Ihr lest and er liest sound the similar, dont they?

[az_p]

They don't, actually.

ihr lest is somewhat like "EAR LEHZT"

er liest is somewhat like "AIR LEAST"

You can find recordings of all words as pronounced by native speakers on Forvo.com:
ihr
er
lest
liest

[Kait666012]

Lol ear and air exactly the same in a new Zealand accent

[RovalenYa]

Lol now I know that New Zealand accent even exists xD

[Larkspire]

Yeah, I rely on the difference between lest and liest haha.

[gtamorim]

That's correct, but the Duolingo pronunciation is often confusing in these cases.

[DerekSimms]

They can actually sound similar; both (particularly sometimes) on DL, and depending upon the laziness/birthplace of the speaker - I would humbly add.

[codeic]

Thank you for the link!

[DomesitaCh]

Yes

[Froschmeister]

Can someone tell me the difference between saying :

"Du liest unsere Zeitung."
and
"Ihr lest unsere Zeitung."

In what situation would I use each phrase?

[TomBunzel]

In German exists a distinction between you singular and you plural.
Du - you singular
Ihr - you plural (sometimes referred to as you all, or y'all)

Situations:

• My friend, you (singular) are reading our newspaper.

Mein Freund, du liest unsere Zeitung

• My friends, y'all (plural) are reading our newspaper.

Meine Freunde, ihr lest unsere Zeitung.

Hope this helps.

[Ireallylovecats]

Should this be liest, not lest?

[ikwilvertalen]

No, "lest" is correct. "Lesen" is, of course, irregular and often when irregular verbs experience a vowel change in the present tense (here: e to ie), the vowel change only occurs in the "du" and "er/sie/es/man" form, whereas the other forms are generally regular with the same vowel as the infinitive:

• ich lese
• du liest
• er/sie/es/man liest
• wir lesen
• ihr lest
• Sie/sie lesen

You can see a similar thing with sehen (du siehst but ihr seht) and fahren (du fährst but ihr fahrt), among other verbs.

[Mr_Eyl]

No. 'Liest' is the form which 'du' takes.

[varun2203]

Why 'ihr'? Why not Sie or du?

[az_p]

They are also possible, as the English sentence isn't specific about whether we are talking to one or more people.

[spineda1992]

Why is "you read our newspaper" not accepted???????????

[Charliebailey03]

Probably because in English "read" has multiple meanings (think 'to read' and 'he read') so Duolingo is pedantic about which you mean. "You are reading" is synonymous with "You read" but in this case Duolingo considers it wrong even though you are correct.

[bijayshah726]

Can unser be used?

[Larkspire]

No. Zeitung is feminine, so it needs to be unsere

[fredyfrog]

I wrote "You are all reading our newspaper". That was graded as incorrect. Why?

[hamid.mah5400]

Why not "Ihr lest unseren Zeitung?"
It seems to me that "Zeitung" is in accusative from. Doesn't it?

[SushilKakk1]

unser is a der word and it takes its ending according to the der accusative word pattern i.e unseren(m), unsere(f), unseres(n) depending on the noun that follows it.