"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.

[deactivated user]

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'.

[MatiasTvorup]

Why does "das ist" translate to "This is", but not to "That is"?

[SeanMay4]

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

[ZuMako8_Momo]

I believe „als“ would be used here (I think „wann“ is only used in questions)

[cengaver23]

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

[ZuMako8_Momo]

Because you skipped translating the „Das ist“ in the beginning of the sentence

[JackCampbell1839]

What is Mount Everest?

[linda5743]

Why can't I say tallest in place of highest. To me the two words have the same meaning.

[billwyncliffe]

Why oh why oh why has Duo not dealt with the genitive properly at this late stage in the course???