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- "Diese Mädchen sind schön."
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Adam121059
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I wrote "These girls are beautiful", but it was marked wrong. I thought schön meant pretty or beautiful?
-Copernicus-
2088
He means "neutral" as a contrast to being specific about distance, not the neuter gender. "Dies" more or less specifies nearness, whereas "das" is neutral about that.
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