"Det er en pige."
Translation:It is a girl.
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context for this situation. "en pige" is singular so you would want the singular pronoun of "det" instead of the plural "de". In English "They are a girl" wouldn't make much sense.
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Except that "they" is plural, so "she is a girl" would be correct.
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'They' isn't always plural, though. You can be talking about one person and use 'they', though this is rarer than the plural 'they'.
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Hey hey, i got an issue with translating it into ''this is a girl'' - how ''this'' and ''that'' are not substitutable in this case, what crucial difference these particles have in Danish??
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Normally "det" is used for both but you can say "dette" for "this" though it is almost never used
Why not "DEN er en pige"? I thought DET was only used for inanimate objects...
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Gender in Danish is a grammatical feature of words. It's not based on any criterion that makes sense, as in English, it's just something you have to learn.
PS: While gender works differently in Danish, this sentence isn't actually an example of the difference. Consider "THAT is a girl".
Any sentence like "it is a [noun]" should be translated as "det er en/et [noun]"
In the construction "it is [adjective]" the use of den/det depends on the genus of the noun that is referred to e.g.:
The tire is flat = dækket er flat; it is flat = det er flat
The boat is sinking = båden synker; it is sinking = den synker
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Also, how are you getting Danish next to your name? I'm not getting Dutch and Danish next to mine...
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I am gonna downvote your comment here.. Hopefully an admin can delete it. It's completely offtopic to this thread. Use the feedback/site bug forum/threads instead.
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No. "Det er..." means "That is...", whilst "Der er..." means "There is...".
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"Denne" for common gender, "dette" for neuter gender.
Stol - en stol - stolen - denne stol.
Bord - et bord - bordet - dette bord.
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I am not very good in English, but I think she is a girl should be a correct answer.
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Yes, you are right, prabhleen12, one would normally say "she is a girl"; but in English it is common to say "It's a boy", or "It's a girl" when referring to a newborn baby. It's the same in Danish.
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So det could be it or that.... I tried "this" and it was wrong. What then "this" would be?
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I understand that "det" means "it" but I think that english speaking people would usually say "She's a girl."?
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I Google translated "det" and it said that it means "it"as well as "she"? Is this true or false?
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You can refer to a baby as 'it'. You actually can hear this used regularly when a baby's born.. It's a girl/boy!!!