"Zijn kinderen lezen de krant."

Translation: His children read the newspaper.

[kostas450253]

Why not "their" children also?

[Nierls]

My = mijn
Your = jouw
His = zijn
Her = haar
It's = zijn

Our = ons/onze
Your = jullie
Their = hun (van hen)

[orhan641069]

Thanks

[Ms_Sparks]

Hopefully someone more fluent will jump in but I believe that would be
"Hun kinderen lezen de krant"

[El2theK]

You are right, further info: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3732923

[Joke770115]

Its zijn kinderen because his means zijn and hun is their

[dasiaxm]

I was almost positive that itread "her children" ugh

[Willowfae]

I thought zijn was a declination of 'to be' - wij zijn kinderen

[Marius]

It is, but in some contexts it can also mean "his" or "its".

[Willowfae]

Thanks. Hopefully it will become natural and not confusing.

[Marius]

You can also look at "het". It can be the definite article "the", or the pronoun "it".

Het is het boek dat we lezen.

[RaphaelDij]

How can I tell that "zijn" in this instance means his?

[RymeLegis]

Just because it couldn't mean anything else. "Are children"? :)

[nafas_mtzdn]

there is no slow version as i see!!!!

[spencerwilliamz]

"Mine are bad, his are good".

In Dutch, would you say the latter half of this sentence as "zijn zijn goed" ?

[Kai_E.]

You would say either "de zijne zijn goed" or "die van hem zijn goed".

[SalmonWolf]

What do those mean exactly? Im sure zijn zijn goed or something like that has been accepted before.

[riding_sunset]

"Zijn", " his" or "are"? How do i know which one to put?

[Nierls]

zijn is his (for both he and it) and zijn also is "to be" infinitive and plural, you should look for another verb, if there's one, zijn can't mean to be, however usually this'll be very easy to distinguish ;)

[astritm]

Why we can not say
Hem kinderen lezen de krant.

[El2theK]

No, "zijn kinderen" - "his children", using "hem" here would be the same as using "him" in English.

"I like him" - "Ik vind hem leuk", and in this example using "zijn" would be similar as using "his" in English.

[astritm]

I see now, thanks a lot @El2theK

[vrouw5]

Lezen.....lesen, different?

[Nierls]

lesen is german, lezen is Dutch ;)

[Your_Lunch]

The listening tasks are so difficult!

[oscarivvan]

In duch present simple and present continues are the same thing?

[Bradley95]

Yes, there is no distinction

[NicolaeComan]

In German: Seine Kinder lesen die Zeitung.

[sal29c]

Cant this also be read as, "Are children reading the newspaper?" Seems it can be a bit confusing

[Nierls]

no, then it'd be "Zijn kinderen de krant aan het lezen" and any Dutchman would write "Zijn de kinderen de krant aan het lezen", as the first sentence would be weird.

[Ms_Sparks]

Are the children reading the newspaper - meaning

Are the children the newspaper at the read-- literal

I made the same error. Thanks for your correction.

[orionoda]

I put "its children" and it said it was wrong... why?

[El2theK]

A child is a young human being (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/child), and in English one does not refer to a human being as an it, but as a he or a she.

[deactivated user]

His children and their children is zijn kinderen, right

[Nierls]

His = zijn, their = hun.

[40461424406667]

Why is "His kids read the newspaper" not accepted when many other translations of kinderen accept "kids" as an answer?

[Nierls]

It should be accepted, are you sure you didn’t misspell anything? If not try reporting it next time

[NeriPer1]

Thats what i wrote