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"Are you thirsty?"
Translation:Hast du Durst?
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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 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?.
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.
Yes, it is. All nouns are capitalised in German.
This is mentioned in the tips and notes for the very first unit.
If you haven't been reading the tips and notes for a unit before starting to learn it (perhaps because you're on a mobile app and didn't even know they exist), now would be a good time to start.
Use the Duolingo website https://www.duolingo.com/ and after selecting a unit, click on the lightbulb icon rather than on the Start button: