"Verschillende dieren drinken het water."
Translation:Various animals are drinking the water.
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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!
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so, i'm gonna ask, i couldn't get the difference between verscheidene and verschillende :~
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
This is extremely confusing for me, my native lanuage is german and the german word 'verschieden' means 'different'.
Whats wrong with just "Various animals are dirnking water". You dont really say "the water" in this context. Two options should be available. Cant say "my son is drinking the water". Just "water" suffice.
You definitely can say the water. Two glasses one water one beer. Is he drinking the water or the beer.
Dropping the article changes the meaning
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in the fast audio the word 'het' is not really audible, or is only a remnant of it. would a native swallow the 'het' in such a sentence? or is the audio a bit incorrect?
The audio is how I would say it quickly as well. However, as a native speaker I didn't hear the word 'het' either. If I would be talking to a non-native speaker, I would put more effort in actually sounding the article.
In Dutch, 'het' is sometimes informally shortened to 't (with the apostrophe). Following this sound file, I would definitely have transcribed this like "De dieren drinken 't water."
Yes. Apparently the animals are drinking that specific water and not just any water.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how a native English speaker can more easily pronounce the "sch" sound? It would be much appreciated.
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S+ the end of "Loch", or if you know Spanish, like an S and J together, like saying "miS Jalapeños" fast.
WOAH! Can anybody sound out how "Verschillende" is suppose to be pronounced cause the audio is too fast.
/vɛrsˈxɪləndə/
With syllables vɛr sˈxɪ lən de
Though some people might might use a schwa as the first e. (Making it vurschillund in dutch phonetics)
'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.
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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.
The audio says "Verschillende dieren 'drinkhet' water". A bit confusing. Is that how regular Dutch sounds?
The audio is how I would say it quickly as well. However, as a native speaker I didn't hear the word 'het' either. If I would be talking to a non-native speaker, I would put more effort in actually sounding the article.
In Dutch, 'het' is sometimes informally shortened to 't (with the apostrophe). Following this sound file, I would definitely have transcribed this like "De dieren drinken 't water."
The audio is how I would say it quickly as well. However, as a native speaker I didn't hear the word 'het' either. If I would be talking to a non-native speaker, I would put more effort in actually sounding the article.
In Dutch, 'het' is sometimes informally shortened to 't (with the apostrophe). Following this sound file, I would definitely have transcribed this like "De dieren drinken 't water."
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As a non-native English speaker, having the water instead of just water threw me off lol. I know the context where you would say the water, I just was not expecting it haha
