"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'.

[RobertoStu16]

"verschiedene" means "various" as well.

[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

[Ghoscher]

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

[rostysilverside]

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.

[Monsieur-Xavier]

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?

[yrosa7]

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

[GXLD.]

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

[emperorchiao]

ver-sgil-len-de

[leandroharry]

Why "several animals drink water" is not correct?

[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.

[Beata50896]

"are drinking" = zijn aan het drinken