"Du trankst die Milch."

Translation: You drank the milk.

[Leecoolguy]

Why drank and not drinking?

[CapnDoug]

Past tense:
"Du trankst die Milch." - "You drank the milk."

Present tense:
"Du trinkst die Milch." - "You drink the milk." or "You are drinking the milk."

[TysonRober11]

So why not the perfect with this, eg: "you have drank the milk", "du hast die milch trankst"?

[David904136]

The English past participle is "drunk". The German is "getrunken".

The example is simple past; there's no good reason to change the tense.

[Konrad-Michal]

Why not You drank milk? It is uncountable.

[KalinaZ]

Maybe it's all of it, all the milk. Or a particular milk.

[Konrad-Michal]

Yes, can be - thanks!

[Johanna802366]

That would be: Du tranks Milch. You just forgot the "direct" article. That has nothing to do with countable or uncountable.

[deactivated user]

The word 'die' can hardly be heard unless the sentence is played slowly.

[David904136]

The male voice complete blew this one in slow mode. It clearly says "trank".

[Narmeen7]

Article is not used with uncountable things in English language.

[CapnDoug]

Yes, it (an article) can be used.

e.g. "Did you bring the money (for the tickets)?"

[ChrissyFen]

I would have used it like this myself. You drank (all) the milk or you drank the milk (that was saved for baking/breakfast etc) or you drank the milk (when you shouldn't, and now you have a tummy ache).... usually with a little frustration in my voice!