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So 'weit' means wide as well as far away? That totally confused me. I had visions of some poor chap hunting desperately for his pants.
Far refers to distance - as in 'located a long distance away'
Wide refers to measurement/size - as in 'wide fit'/'wide leg'
I hope that helps
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I understand you used "wide" to translate to English as it is a cognate... but the problem is that no native English speaker would talk about "wide trousers" or "wide pants." Sizing terms used are "large," "extra large" (on the labels), and more colloquially, "big" or "baggy" (the latter used when each individual pant leg is wide -- which is unusual nowadays).
@ jairapeytan
I would have to disagree with your comment. Although I am not a 'fashion guru', I have just looked up the term 'wide trousers' and while most clothing stores do, admittedly, advertise trousers/pants as 'wide leg trousers', you do also see clothing listed as 'wide trousers', for example at the clothing chain H&M.
wide trousers at HM
Futurama. "You've been wearing the same pants for 1000 years? No wonder they made a run for it."
"Your trousers are wide" should also be accepted. We don't all speak American English here.
Normally ist = is and sind = are, but in German, Hose is a singular noun, unlike in English where pants is a plural noun. So, in German, it would be "die Hose ist weit" for one pair of pants, or "die Hosen sind weit" for multiple pairs of pants. In English, it's "the pants are wide" whether there is one pair of pants or multiple pairs. Hope this helps!
I think I was corrected to "Hosen" on another exercise in this lesson.
To my understanding ist literally translates into is but considering the pants/trousers are considered plural they changed it to are.
Hello, I have a question for Duo : why have you removed the gender from the drop downs under a noun? They were so, so useful. Now I have to go to my dictionary or Google Translate or Leo to find out the gender. It takes sooooooo long to do that for every noun. I do try to memorize the gender but as there are thousands, it was so nice to see the der, die das immediately. Please Duo, reinstate them ; Please :)
What about "large", which is a valid translations of weit according to dictcc.
"wide" is not a word normally used to describe trousers so I went for "large" but was rejected. But you would never go into a store and ask for a wide pair of trousers unless you were Homer Simpson (ref. the classic "wide load" sign on the backside of his trousers) :-)
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Yes, that is why I opened up this discussion, to see if anybody else complained about the "wide" trousers. Native English speaker here, ex-English teacher, and I've never heard "wide" used to describe large pants. I was thinking maybe they meant each individual leg was wide, the opposite of what is in fashion now... but those would probably be described as "baggy."
I have replied to your other comment, simply to say that you do see trousers listed as 'wide trousers'. I will agree that it is far more common to see such clothing listed as 'wide-leg trousers' but clothing chains do use the term 'wide trousers' too.
Hose are trousers ? so why did I get marker wrong for saying trousers for hose? In England we call trousers trousers not pants!!!!
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This is not correct. You never say 'your trousers' are wide'. You say 'your trousers are big'.
Yes. I would love some clarification of what exactly this sentence means. Does it mean they are a big size, that they are loose-too big, or more literally that they are wide - ie wide legged pants? In English I would assume the lattermost translation but I am guessing that it is actually the first?
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German "weit" is used in the sense of "loose". Correct answer should be "your pants are loose"
Yes, "die hose" is singular and "die hosen" is plural, but I think also the plural is sometimes used similar to English, as in one pair of pants.
Agree to many other comment. We dont speak Amerikan English and trousers should be correct
In Kurdish translation of the word pants is: something that is wide and long, damoqopan. for a second I thought the person making the question is kurd
" Ist is is but here is are, hose is pant but here is pants." WAS IST DAS, BITTE ERKLÄREN SIE. :(
You may have missed AstralHunter's reply to a similar question:
Normally ist = is and sind = are, but in German, Hose is a singular noun, unlike in English where pants is a plural noun. So, in German, it would be "die Hose ist weit" for one pair of pants, or "die Hosen sind weit" for multiple pairs of pants. In English, it's "the pants are wide" whether there is one pair of pants or multiple pairs. Hope this helps!
I thought "breit" means "wide"? Which is more common/correct to use - "breit" or "weit"?
Your pant(leg)s...? You wouldn't wear one pant leg, you'd wear two. Unless you just wear your pants weird, which is fine.
Why "dein" is written "deine" in this sentence? I am a little confused. Is that the same thing?
Why "dein" is written "deine" in this sentence?
Because Hose is feminine.
dein is used before masculine words (e.g. dein Löffel "your spoon") and before neuter words (e.g. dein Kind "your child"), but deine before feminine words (e.g. deine Hose "your (pair of) pants") and before plural ones (e.g. deine Eltern "your parents").
Your pants are wide is correct but not in this contest. Deine Hose means one pant. So the correct sentence is, your pant is wide
