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"The sheep goes over the zebra crossing."
Translation:Das Schaf geht über den Zebrastreifen.
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Zebrastreifen = crosswalk for Americans. The British call them zebra stripes too, I believe.
1783
I'm a Brit and "zebra stripes" sounds pretty foreign to me. Maybe it's said in some other areas of the UK, but where I'm from we just call it a zebra crossing.
Thanks- I was thinking that it may be a variation of the song "Der Bär geht über den Berg"!
Am I right that „den Zebrastreifen" in this sentence is accusative singular and not dative plural?
- 124
In Croatia for the animal we say "Zebra", and for the crosswalk/Zebrastreifen, we just use the same name as for the animal, so we just call it "zebra".
It's strange how Duolingo uses International/American English in practically every case, except for "zebra crossing" vs. "crosswalk," where they switch to British English.
Duolingo uses whichever dialect of English was used by the volunteers that put together the question.
- 1783
As far as I'm aware, they generally do try to teach American English on Duolingo (which I wouldn't call International English, but maybe that's just me)—hence the American flag, rather than British, Canadian, Australian etc.—but they almost always accept alternatives from other variants.
I believe this sentence is an exception.
So Zebrastreifen is singular despite "streifen" being plural ? Seems odd. (As "den" must be accusative of "der" as "geht" involves motion)
- 1998
"Streifen" is both the singular and the plural (The singular is not "Streife"). So it's singular here, hence the accusative with "den."
Let us be absolutely clear here: "the stripe" is "der Streifen" and "the stripes" is "die Streifen". However, "the zebra stripe" (crosswalk, zebra crossing) is a singular, masculine word " der Zebrastreifen", and the word for multiple crosswalks is "DIE Zebrastreifen". https://www.dict.cc/?s=Zebrastreifen
- 243
compounding the confusion, the hints get all mixed up by mis-offering "das" as the article, assumedly for Zebra.
Duo translates "The zebra crossing"(singular) as DIE Zebrastreifen... thats what confused me...
In duo's dictionary, when you insert the zebra crossing it gives you DIE Zebrastreifen
- 1998
In duo's dictionary, when you insert the zebra crossing it gives you DIE Zebrastreifen
Duo's AI isn't perfect. If you type in multiple words, it has to use AI to decide the right form of a word in the right context, and it doesn't always get it right. (For what it's worth, "the zebra crossing" gave me "die Zebrastreifen," but "The zebra crossing" gave the correct "der Zebrastreifen.")
I recommend using a more reliable dictionary like Pons to find out the gender of a word.
I might have tried to make it too complicated but tried to use hinübergehen "Das Schaf geht den Zebrastreifen hinüber" could someone tell me where I went wrong
- 1998
"Über" is the correct word for passing over something. Depending on which case you put "Zebrastreifen" in, "auf" would mean that the sheep just walked onto the crossing (and just stopped there on it), or that it walked around on top of the crossing (without leaving it).
His would Americans know that a crosswalk is called a "zebra striped" in Europe? I though it was s crossing for zebras! A "Zebra Kreutung".
