"Pandas are black and white."

Translation: 熊猫是黑色和白色的。

[MichaelLe3139]

Can someone explain why we need 的 here please!

[DestinationVoid]

Without 的 black & white are nouns.

You need it in order to turn them into adjectives.

[Gabrielle145359]

I would say it's the other way around. Since we are using 是, we cannot have a predicate that is only adjectives. That's why you need 的, to turn 黑色 and 白色 into nouns.

[kasperhettinga]

But why the answer only has 的 after 白色？

[jeon8257]

Because Pandas are "black and white"de and not some black de pandas and some white de pandas.

[savannah129684]

黑色和白色的熊猫

[anisocoria]

I think it's a "是。。。的" construction. Like saying 我的手机是白色的, my cell phone is white

[elmanisero777]

can you say instead "熊猫又黑色的又白色的"?

[KX3.]

（皮毛）又黑又白 sounds more natural.
That's also more 有黑色有白色的。

[carpiediem]

Yeah, but those characters aren't provided as options in this exercise.

[noodlenoof]

熊猫是黑白的

[savannah129684]

黑色和白色的大 猫

[savannah129684]

黑色和白色的大猫

[Rapax_Xihu]

Is it just me or is this entire skill a complete mess because they constantly expect us to use specific grammar patterns that their translations do NOT imply?

[Rapax_Xihu]

(for context, I tried 熊猫又黑又白 and the 啊 also keeps tripping me up)

[StasioFigurka]

i've got the same question. Why is 熊猫又黑又白 wrong?