"Der Hut ist toll!"

Translation: The hat is great!

[MrMusAddict]

Would "nice" be an acceptable translation for "toll" in this context? Nice not as in kind, but as in cool, or great.

[Kevin564718]

Duo rejected my translation "The hat is cool." However, I think it was a spot-on translation from German to American English.

[Glyn323150]

My natural answer was the same "the hat is cool", from a British English background.

[zotteline]

That's what I typed too, but was rejected. German native. For me, toll can mean a lot of things, and you might hear from how you stress the word how it is meant, i.e. just nice or actually great.

[Hodorious]

Same thing for „neat“.

[deactivated user]

Es ist ein Propellerhut!

[HerrBob3]

Duo is saying you can't make a contraction from "hat is" to make "hat's".

[mizinamo]

Such contractions after nouns would have to be entered manually, and so are usually missing.

So it's best for you not to use contractions involving nouns + "is, has, etc.".

[AKBarbosa]

How is it "lovely" if the translation given is "great" (which is rejected in one place but not another)?!

[Melanie873158]

Maybe its like snort The hat is faaaabulous!

[Marc870724]

What would be the difference between "toll" and "Grossartig"?

[mizinamo]

not much; they're pretty similar in meaning

[pellucidon]

The hat's great.

Why oh why can't Duo grasp the use of apostrophes in English?

[mizinamo]

Why oh why can't Duo grasp the use of apostrophes in English?

Because it's a machine, not a person who can actually speak a language.

[aidilnoe]

How is the phonetics of Hut - Hüte, please!!
I don't listen well.I can't pronounce them

[mizinamo]

How is the phonetics of Hut - Hüte, please!

[huːt -- hyːtə]

[ErdemBiyik]

Der Hund ist Toll.
(Sounded me like :)

[Arvind465011]

Is that spelled as "hat" or "hut"?

[Kseniya317812]

Cool is a better translation in this case

[Julia602983]

The voice is very unclear. I needed to listen about 10 times slowly before i understood hat