"These are the last two oranges."
Translation:Das sind die letzten zwei Orangen.
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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.
I find it a lot easier to simply remember 'all plurals with a definite article take an 'en' ending' than trying to figure out weak and strong inflection on the fly.
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.
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.
what is the difference between weak inflection and strong inflection , i am little confused .can you help me
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 :)
Firstly, you missed out a letter (die letzten, not die letzen); secondly, you didn't translate "two".
Tip: "last" in English ends in -t, and so does letzt-.
But then would 'zwei' be wrong?
Not grammatically wrong but idiomatically not that great -- it's not what Germans would most commonly say.
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Korrektes Deutsch, ja wohl. Aber keine korrekte Übersetzung.
"Those two oranges are the last ones."
Pretty similar meaning at the end of the day, but very different wording.
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