"Are you thirsty?"
Translation:Hast du Durst?
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Can i simply put it as "durst du?" I'm not sure if i came across this from other books
No.
Durst is a noun, not a verb.
There is a verb dürsten but it's poetic -- if you asked someone, Dürstet es dich?, it would sound very strange in everyday conversation.
Is inversion required? Can you not say "Du hast Durst?" with a rising inflection?
Only in more or less the situations where you could ask "You're thirsty??!" with a rising inflection -- i.e. when you heard something surprising and you want to make sure that you heard correctly.
It's not the neutral way to form a yes-no question, in either language.
Why not "bist?"
Because in German, we usually talk (literally translated) about "having thirst" and "having hunger", rather than "being thirsty" and "being hungry".
So "Are you thirsty?" is most naturally Hast du Durst? rather than Bist du durstig?.
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I thought "Bist du durstig?" and "Bist du hungrig?" were perfectly normal statements. Am I missing something.
Oh it makes thing very clear and easy to understand now. Thank you mizinamo! Is that most of the adjective about feeling can be applied in this 'having' way?
Is that most of the adjective about feeling can be applied in this 'having' way?
No. The ones I can think of a Hunger, Durst, Angst haben (be hungry, thirsty, afraid).
Some temperature adjectives are "it is ... to me/him/her", e.g. mir ist kalt/warm (I am cold/warm).
Most other feelings use "to be" as in English: ich bin müde/frustriert/verwirrt "I am tired/frustrated/confused".
can i put 'sind sie durst' ?
No. That makes no sense in German. (And durst with a small d isn't even a German word.)
No. German is not pro-drop: you cannot omit subject pronouns in statements or questions.
Because the subject du requires the verb form hast.
habt would be the verb form for ihr.
So if you are asking one person, you would say, Hast du Durst?
And if you are asking several people at once, you would say Habt ihr Durst?
The verb form has to match the pronoun that you use.
Just like you can't say "Am you thirsty?" or "Is you thirsty?" -- the pronoun "you" requires the verb form "are" in English.
Can you explain why we are allowed to say 'ich habe durst' is right while 'du hast durst' is wrong.
Can you explain why we are allowed to say 'ich habe durst' is right
Please pay attention to the spelling -- Durst is a noun and so it has to be capitalised.
ich habe Durst = I am thirsty.
while 'du hast durst' is wrong.
du hast Durst would be perfectly fine for "you are thirsty".
But here, you're asked to translate "are you thirsty?" -- a question, not a statement.
So you need Hast du Durst?.
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