"Verschillende dieren drinken het water."

Translation: Various animals are drinking the water.

[Arix.ariX]

so, i'm gonna ask, i couldn't get the difference between verscheidene and verschillende :~

[costyn]

verscheidene really means 'various' and verschillende means 'different'. So 'we have various books': we hebben verscheidene boeken vs 'we have many different books': we hebben veel verschillende boeken. Very similar in meaning, also in Dutch. Hope this helps

[Science_Yay]

This is extremely confusing for me, my native lanuage is german and the german word 'verschieden' means 'different'.

[Ursus_Magnus]

Bedankt! That was really confusing me the whole lesson.

[wotintarnations]

It would be nice to have "Verscheidene dieren drinken het water" as part of this lesson too, so we have to actually read the word and not just insta-recognize the sentence as a whole. Same with the "vershcheidene boeken"-sentences could be "vershillende boeken" as addition.

When I see these sentences my brain reads the sentence as a whole, not the individual first words, which I can imagine be easy to mix up!

[vam1980]

Note the spelling, both are with -sch-:
verscheidene
verschillende

[KxngDeo.]

WOAH! Can anybody sound out how "Verschillende" is suppose to be pronounced cause the audio is too fast.

[emperorchiao]

ver-sgil-len-de

[Ghoscher]

Are we here interested in some specific water to use "het"?

[yrosa7]

Okay apparently you must add "the" or else it is wrong

[ReneeDubuc]

Does anybody have any suggestions on how a native English speaker can more easily pronounce the "sch" sound? It would be much appreciated.

[emperorchiao]

S+ the end of "Loch", or if you know Spanish, like an S and J together, like saying "miS Jalapeños" fast.

[krimpet1]

'verschillend' is inflected because "dieren" is plural? Would the following be grammatical? Thank you!

ex. Het is een verschillend dier, liefje. Geen eend.

ex. Nee, verschillend dier, meisje. Niet aanraken.

[vam1980]

Grammatically it's correct, but semantically it's not. In your first example, you would say "een ander dier". I don't really understand the meaning of the second example.