"We are selling our small dog."

Translation: Wir verkaufen unseren kleinen Hund.

[Davarrel]

:'(

[Mr_Matty]

Sad at how wrong I was, not at the fate of the dog.

[Katja_Obinger]

Hahahahaha! I opened the discussion with the same face!

[Anya_Dubinkina]

Maybe they breed dogs and the smallest found his new owner? :з

[onecrane]

Learn German, they said. It's fun, they said. Here are your five billion ways to say "small." Get them wrong and you'll be unintelligible.

[Aecko.]

Why "unserEN kleinEN"?

[NikolaSchildberg]

Unseren: "Hund" is masculine akkusativ here (the direct object of "verkaufen")

Kleinen: take a look at Adjektivendungen (adjective endings): you can see it by giant tables of gender, number, case...or you can see by the thumb rules based on the preceding articles or pronouns. That tells us that with "unserEN" we must use "kleinEN"

Hope that helps

[NikolaSchildberg]

And (here)[http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/grammar/adjektivendungenexpl.html] you can find a great explanation on Adjektivendungen!

[VedranSold]

The first clump of words was all i needed to hear. Good eye m8!!

[Rholler8]

Why would we sell our little dog tho?? :(

[CatFoodsMinmo]

Who sells their pet???

[Catriona555]

Maybe someone like me who is severly allergic to dogs. :(

[MillieRou]

Then you wouldn't get one in the first place

[petermyro]

Das ist so traurig

[Icehawke]

Arme hund

[WisalCh]

why is it in akkusativ here?

[MsNitto]

I think because the dog is the object in the sentence.

[L-Rell]

Yes, the dog is the direct object (accusative). S/he is what is being sold.

[deactivated user]

Same question here

[Iryna372373]

Off topic...
I'm doing this sentence when the scandal with my country's politician is still fresh having produced countless memes.

The guy said on television that if people have no money to pay for a gas bill, it could be a good idea for them to sell their dog of some elite breed.

Much hilarity and indignation ensued. Could he be any more clueless and detached from average people?

[alborghetti]

The 'tips' suck and dont explain why 'kleinen' has an '-en' ending...

[brave-sir-robin]

it's declination. since "hund" is the object of the verb and needs accusative, "mein" and "klein" get it too

[Romero224]

Who would 'sell' or even 'get rid' of their dog?!! This comes up a lot on Duolingo. Disturbing.

[HerrSchauspieler]

A pet store or a dog breeder?
Cheer up mate!

[RachelCRigby]

This is the saddest.

[Tinh1000000]

Would it be that „ein Hündchen“ is more commonly used than „ein kleiner Hund“?

[L-Rell]

Hündchen means more like "puppy". This is just a small dog.

[EDK-Learner]

How sad.

[JamesHall76]

Why is it grosser Hund but kleinen Hund. I need an explanation.

[L-Rell]

If this sentence were, "We are selling our large dog", it would be, "Wir verkaufen unseren großen Hund."

[Kianaahmadi]

Warum "kleinen" und nicht "kleinet"?

[L-Rell]

"Kleinen" is accusative case because Hund, in this case, is a direct object.

[kromeier__]

why not "kleiner Hund"?

[L-Rell]

Hund is the direct object so just as "der Hund" changes to "den Hund" in the accusative case, "kleiner Hund" changes to "kleinen Hund".

[RoxannaWh]

I tried my answer on google translate to see where I'd get. it changed my english translation to "we are drowning our small dog". haha

[Nathan173901]

Yeah, it's unreliable and people still argue in the comments (other threads, other languages) that their answer has to be correct, because Google Translate said so.