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- "Anna is that child."
"Anna is that child."
Translation:Anna ist dieses Kind.
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It's grammatically correct, just not one of the accepted translations.
Report it if you'd like, though bear in mind that jenes is rather rare in today's German, and using it may make you sound unnatural. (It's a bit like "yonder" in English: technically a word but it has fallen out of use to such an extent that if you use it where the particular markedness is not deliberately intended, you will often sound odd.)
I think it's a mistake. Please report it.
dieses usually translates best as "this", not "that".
Given that jenes sounds so formal, would your preferred translation here be Anna ist das Kind?
I don't agree with this translation. With das Kind it's not clear that you mean that child, not the child. You shouldn't use der/die/das as demonstrative pronouns directly in front of the noun they refer to, for exactly this reason. So i would actually say Anna ist dieses Kind. In spoken language you can stress das so that it gets clear that it's meant as a demonstrative pronoun. Look also here. They don't forbid to do it in written language, but it's totally not obvious that you want to point at something. The majority would get you wrong.
I think it's a bad translation choice on the part of the people who added this particular sentence. Report it if you'd like.
dieses usually means "this" rather than "that".
Why is "Anna ist dies kind" wrong?
- Kind is a noun, so it should be capitalised.
- dies means "this", not "that"
- (even if dies had been correct, it would be better to use dieses Kind with -es before a noun)
When this sentence is used in English, other than telling someone who Anna is, "that" may also be emphasised in a nicher meaning that could mean something similar to "Anna is that type of child", as in english "He's that type of person" perhaps to explain their behaviour would the german sentence be able to also hold this type of secondary meaning or not?
