"Pindsvinet spiser nogle flotte æbler."

Translation: The hedgehog is eating some pretty apples.

[Demetroid]

Can "flotte" be translated as "nice" here?

[canadieren]

I think that would make more sense – never heard of a "handsome" apple here, but I guess they are going for a direct translation

[chriss2401]

I wrote beautiful instead of pretty and it was wrong ...

[80s_persona]

I keep on doing this all the time and I'm a native... Argh...

[Diane598511]

When I keep goofing up I deliberately make a mistake so I can get them to give me how they want me to word it

[sighen2]

I do not get the drift of this conversation but I have never seen a "pretty" apple... it might be nice or at a pinch beautiful but PRETTY? Not really...

[LanaGarland]

When I lived in Denmark, pindsvin meant porcupine.

[James617376]

My Danish girlfriend tells me that pindsvin is a hedgehog and a porcupine is a 'cave hedgehog'- hulepindsvin.

[drwicho]

Thanks! I thought of "porcupine" first.

[Victoria356865]

I think "great" would be a better translation than either of those Duolingo provides. As in Norwegian it's a very useful all-purpose positive word and not too specific, just as great is.

[Myyrslook]

That makes good sense. 'Pretty apples' or 'handsome apples' just sound weird in English.

[DomMay]

Porcupine is the same as hedgehog, no?

[ycUvuSap]

No, it is a different animal. See for example Wikipedia.

[MichelleMa511581]

I love this little sentence!

[Charlie-Thistle]

How is flotte different from smykke?

[80s_persona]

Flotte (beautiful/pretty) and smukke (beautiful) is not technically different, at least not in my book. Some may argue that different synonyms of beautiful in Danish have different intensity (how much you really mean what you’re saying) but I don’t think it’s the case here. There is almost no difference.