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"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.
No. German is not pro-drop: you cannot omit subject pronouns in statements or questions.
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?.
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".
I thought "Bist du durstig?" and "Bist du hungrig?" were perfectly normal statements. Am I missing something.
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?.
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.)
The hint under thirsty only had "durstig" as the correct word but that's wrong, and when I used Has du durst in the last question to translate that, that was wrong too.
It should be Hast du Durst? -- you spelled the verb wrong.
I've added some hints for the entire phrase now.
If it did not accept Hast du Durst?, then you might have had a listening exercise rather than a translation exercise -- or you might have had some other small typo.
If you're sure it was neither of those, I can't guess what might have happened -- a link to an uploaded screenshot would be helpful.
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.
Hi can someone explain why "Du hat durst is wrong?"
1) Yes–no questions start with a verb (in both English and German).
2) The verb form for du is hast -- hat is for er/sie/es.
3) Durst is a noun and has to be capitalised.
So it has to be Hast du Durst?
Das ist auch richtig !ist sie durstig
Nein. "you" bezieht sich auf den Ansprechpartner / den Zuhörer: du, ihr, Sie.
Aber nicht sie wie in sie hat Durst -- das ist eine weibliche Person, die nicht am Gespräch teilnimmt: du sprichst nicht mit ihr sondern über sie.
You could also translate it to: Bist du durstig?
That might not be so common but is a correct and more literal expression.
Hast du Durst? literally translates to "Have you thirst?"
Durst is a noun meaning "thirst" (that's why it's capitalised).
So when you translate into German, you turn "Are you thirsty?" into Hast du Durst?, and vice versa.
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:
