"Deine Jungen lesen eine Zeitung."

Translation: Your boys read a newspaper.

[CaptainNemo17]

Why "your boys are reading " is wrong? Why only "read"?

[stepintime]

"Your boys are reading a newspaper" should be accepted, of course.

[GingerQuery]

Is "sons" not a legitimate interpretation of "Jungen" the same way "wife" is for "Frau?"

[Rajabrahon12]

I don't think so, Son = Sohn.

[stepintime]

I agree.

Fun fact: "die Jungen" is also the word used for an animal's offspring. If the parent in question is rather paranoid and easily offended, you might prefer to say "deine Söhne" ("your sons") instead, or "deine Jungs" ("your boys", more colloquial) :) - but as a translation, only "deine Jungen = your boys" works in this sentence.

[EliRogers12]

Is that just a proper way of saying it

[ShreyaMatta]

Why is it deine and not dein?

[PurpleIceBear]

Because Jungen is plural. So you put E at the end of Dein

[CarolWise1]

My grandfather was German. He said "Young 'uns" for "children." I get this word "Jungen" mixed up sometimes. Need to remember they are just boys, being boys! ;)

[seuny]

I wrote exactly the correct answer my j on jungen was lower case and it got marked as wrong. I have made far worse typo errors forgetting umlauts and still marked as correct

[vanesa662450]

i think the english translation is not gramatically correct

[mtys416949]

it corrected me "your boys read a GAZETTE" like what is that

[agungbudipsty]

It is turkish

[Jan476057]

When "eine Zeitung" and when "einen Zeitung"??

[pringles20107]

Eine or einen -> one of those is male and the other femal like this kein is male and keine is female

[Nishanthru]

Feminine(Nominativ,accusative) - eine Zeitung
Plural (dative) - einen Zeitung

[Gaming4Gir]

Heißt das nicht "Deine JungS?"

[DevranKutlu]

why not sons

[Kimarusan]

why do I hear Dein instead of Deine

[EmmaRidge]

I appreciate that Jungen=boys but would a German native imply "your sons" if the context permitted. "Your boys" could often be an alternative to "your sons" in my UK neck of the woods. Not always, but in context it could. Thx.

[charpagon]

I feel like "your boys are reading a magazine" should be fine, no?