"Wir sind im kleinen Garten."
Translation:We are in the small garden.
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I was a bit confused by weak inflection being used at first. I think it's worth pointing out that weak inflection is used here since there is technically an article before kleinen -- im is a contraction of in + dem.
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I prefer your explanation, there is an article "dem" and not under its original form ("der") => -en
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indeed, you are right pointing this, there is an article, and this article is not on its original form = -en
What is wrong with this language? How can a person memorize these?.. Is there a trick? a rule? or something else?
Are these table exact same for all the adjectives? For example the word "schnell" or are there any exceptions?
Damn, I love it! Comparative is a liitle tricky game. I bloody love it!
*Hint: Read again the "Colours" lesson to refresh adjectives declension. It really helps.
Or outside of American English you can write "garden".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_%28land%29
http://www.learnenglish.de/mistakes/usvsbrenglish.html
Yard itself can be translated into German in different ways:
backyard: der Hof and der Hinterhof
shipyard: die Werft
So don't expect every usage of -yard to be -hof. More examples: http://context.reverso.net/translation/english-german/yard
There should have been an explanation in the adjective lesson, on Strong Weak and Mixed inflections. (Is there going to be one further down on the tree)? Someone who has no prior experience with German, has no idea what you are talking about. And, the Wiki pages do not help, with all the extra stuff in them. No one cares how this came into being from the Old German.
Why is this dative we are not giving or receiving anything PLEASE HELP ME thanks :)
Once again, DL is equating "der Garten" with a "yard." Garten = garden, Hof = yard.
I think,"wir sind in kleinem Garten" could be correct with strong ending ,(ei: -em) and without determiner.
"wie sind in kleinem Garten" is not a translation of the given sentence. It would tranbslate to "we are in small garden", which is correct only in telegram style, both German and English.
The given sentence contains a definite article ("im" = "in dem"). So the correct translation is "We are in the small garden".
How to figure out the small and smaller... Which one should be it? Im confused using the comparative degree...
"small" is "klein", "smaller" is "kleiner". But note that both get the case endings attached. So e.g. "Ein kleiner Garten" is "a small garden", "a smaller garden" would be "ein kleinerer Garten".