"These are the last two oranges."
Translation:Das sind die letzten zwei Orangen.
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Earlier, i translated a sentence "Es sind.... " and the correct translation was "these are". However, here I typed in "es sind die letzten zwei Orangen" and it says I made a mistake, saying only "das sind" is correct. I'm confused, please help.
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I should know this by now but.... why letzten now rather than letzte?
Weak inflection after the definite article die.
The weak inflection ending is -en in the plural.
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That would mean "the both of the last oranges", so it would kind of mean the same thing, but it is not an accurate translation.
I don't understand why I should have used the "singular" Orange here instead of the "plural" Orangen, since we are talking about two oranges.
zweite means "second". So your translation would be "Those are the last, second oranges" which makes no sense. The endings of numbers are never altered by the case or the gender of the noun that follows :)
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Thank you very much, I did not know that numbers don't get inflected!
Firstly, you missed out a letter (die letzten, not die letzen); secondly, you didn't translate "two".