"Meine Hemden sind weiß."

Translation: My shirts are white.

[slytherclaw]

Am I the only one who could not understand the word "hemden" at all when it was said?

[Anonyduck]

Yes, same. Had to click 'slower' to catch it. The speaker seems to be dropping the last 'e'.

[gterry180]

I thought she said Händen. lloolll

[latergator]

Ich auch.

[kyky]

It does sound a little weird.

[fidodido5]

Hemden =shirts

[RoeyKelner]

Why is it "Meine" and not "Mein"?

[Sam_likes_bio]

try this:
mein = my/mine (masculine or neuter nouns)
meine = my/mine (feminine or plural nouns)
Hemden is plural, therefore 'Meine.'

[globetrotter1013]

Danke!! Das ist nützlich!

[EstebanQui3]

Thanks! It makes more sense when put that way.

[jmattx]

Thank you so much - this is very helpful in explaining the difference :)

[kassynics26]

Thank you for the help

[MosesJohn]

Danke.

[d3_neux]

Great way to make it so much easier! Danke!

[meirgiler]

Thank you very much it was very nützlich

[AngelaElli6]

Thank you, that's so helpful!

[James_Gering]

Danke :D

[FebryDahya]

Because Hämden is in plural noun, you should use "meine".

[betsyl]

Is it incorrect to use a double s instead of ß?

[Catweasel]

Nope :) As far as I'm aware the "scharfes S" is slowly becoming extinct. Fingers crossed that the umlauts follow eh? :p.

Weiß is a good example of that, with Weiss being used more and more frequently (probably because of us auslanders ;p). However, bear in mind that "weis" doesn't mean "white".

[izygray]

In Switzerland they don't use ß so for them it's not wrong. Also, if your keyboard doesn't have it you can use "ss" instead. You should however try to use in every case or else you will develop bad habits (since you are still new to German).

[Rampion]

What is the difference between Meine and Mein?

[Catweasel]

"meine" is feminine and plural. "mein" is masculine - it's a der, die, das thing. "Hemden" is plural (shirts) so we need to decline the article (Verbs are conjugated; nouns and adjectives are declined).

Once you've got the bit worked out (which I think I have) you then need to work out which case (accusative, nominative, genitive, dative) as that also influences the declination....

German...it's fun...so I'm told ;p

[olewski]

They really need to implement new text to speech technology

[Siddhant021]

So weib means white as well as knows, is confusing

[Mrmak44]

Is there an audible difference between s and ß?