"De neushoorn eet een appel."

Translation: The rhinoceros is eating an apple.

[AngleTerran]

'neushoorn' means 'nose horn', so that's pretty straightforward to remember.

[PiryatJos]

So far I can guess the majority and they're right.

[tatianandreeva]

'deer' and 'dier' is however the opposite example

[divas2009]

"dier" is just like "Tier" in german btw...anyhow i believe "neushoorn" is rather useless word, strange choice ))

[TobyBartels]

It\'s not strange at all; it\'s a direct translation of the Greek word ‘rhinoceros’.

[AlexNapoli1]

You do realize it's the same word in German, right?
Das Nashorn

[tu.8zPhLD72zzoZN]

Yes, I got caught with that one: the picture of the deer with the word "dier" instead of "hert". It wasn't until I saw the picture of the cat with the word "dier" that I caught on that it meant animal.

[PaulineStinson]

and then there's also beest...

[ChrisFleig1]

Of course English also has both "animal" and "beast". I wonder if there's a similarly distinct connotation?

[dimigoul]

Yes! if you use your imagination you get most of them :)

[JewishPolyglot]

AngleTerran "rhinoceros" also means nose horn - in Greek

[legalskier]

I didn't know how to spell rhinoceros in English! Fail.

[roxieravenclaw]

That happened to me the first time I got a sentence with "neushoorn" in it. XD Well--I just discovered now that Duolingo also accepts "rhino," so that's good to know. :)

[summ1t]

I'm not great at spelling either. Learning Dutch has only made it worse.

[DM1717]

I used rhino. It was correct

[magnumspagnum]

'neushoorn' = 'nashorn' in german = 'næsehorn' in danish / same logic in all these (germanic) languages :)

[maria.nils]

Not to mention English - rhino = nose, ceros = horn (but it's Greek, so it's less obvious)

[TheJackalope231]

Dang English trying to be all fancy.

[Willowfae]

It sounds as if she is saying it as two separate words - neus hoorn. Is this normal or is it just over pronounced here for learners?

[MikeSpar]

ok what is diffrtence between de and het and geen and niet

[El2theK]

• De and het - https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3732938
• Niet and geen - https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3734833

[staniastaniaa]

Can you all help me with the pronunciation 'eten' and 'eet een'? It sounds alike. :/

[Susande]

There is no difference. However you can figure it out because of context. Mainly because eet (singular) and eten (plural) have to match the subject. The same also happens with some other verbs, see below.

• ik (singular) eet een taart (singular) = I eat a cake/I eat a pie
• wij (plural) eten taart = we eat cake/pie

Sometimes the noun also helps (the noun needs to be plural or uncountable if it's not preceded by an article):

• ik lees een boek - I read a book - you can never use a plural noun here, so if you hear lezen boek it will in fact (almost?) always be lees een boek
• wij lezen boeken - we read books - similarly you can't use a singular noun here, so if you think you hear something like lees een boeken it will always have been lezen boeken