"Das ist der höchste Berg der Welt."

Translation: This is the highest mountain in the world.

[jlamberti000]

Was ist Everest, Alex?

[jajajaja1234]

Do you not need to include the "in"? Or is it implied in the way that der Welt is already in the dative case.

[olimo]

"Der Welt" is in Genitive here, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, you don't need to put "in" here because the connection of "world" and "mountain" is made by using Genitive case.

In English there are no cases, so we have to use prepositions to connect the nouns. In other languages where there are cases, prepositions are not always necessary.

[christian]

Right. Syntactically, the German sentence is closer to "the world's highest mountain". It's possession vs location.

[jajajaja1234]

Oh I see. So it's like saying "the highest mountain of the world" - as in, belonging to the world, almost?

[olimo]

Exactly. In fact, Genitive case is most often translated into English with "of".

[jajajaja1234]

Brilliant - thanks for the help.

[sandeepa2]

olimo, christian - Danke schön.

[Joe12345678Joe]

I went ahead and said "Mount Everest." Of course, I got it wrong ;~)

[byeimgone123]

Shouldn't it be "Das ist der höchste Berg des Welt."

[davidgrealy]

'Welt' is feminine. So 'die Welt' and in the genitive 'der Welt'

[byeimgone123]

thanks!

[RalphBischoff]

The suggested answer " This's the highest mountain on earth." is not acceptable.

[snig717]

That's because the correct word for world in German is 'Welt' and for earth, it is 'Erde'.

[SeanMay4]

Der höchste Berg der Welt ist Olympus Mons wann deine Welt ist Mars.

[cengaver23]

I do not understand why "the tallest mountain of the world" is wrong

[JackYakov]

why "that is the highest hill of the world" is not right?

[Helen.degeneres]

Even if "hill" was accepted in earlier lessons, it should not have been. There is a sizable difference between 'mountain' and 'hill'.

[gennuisance]

stop making mountains out of (mole)hills

[Gyurci77]

Yes, hill was accepted in previous lessons.

[bf2010]

"Das" should be translated as "that", whereas "dies" is "this".

[christian]

Depending on the context, "das" can be "this" or "that".

[bf2010]

hi christian, just as in English this and that, dies an das can be used in different contexts. My suggestion was to make it easier for learners and to work with parallel "categories" dies-this, das-that

[wataya]

I'm afraid that doesn't work.

[olimo]

As far as I understand "dies ist" is much less common than "das ist", therefore it won't be right to always translate "this" as "dies" and "that" as "das".

[juandenil]

Reminds me of the poem about how to speak with an Irish accent -
' Dis and dat and dese and dose - dat's de way de ' tee-aitch ' goes! '