"Do the cats drink water?"
Translation:Drikker kattene vand?
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en kat (a cat), katten (the cat), flere katte (several cats), alle kattene (all the cats)
Sean, is there an easy rule to explain when you use 'en' kat vs 'et' kat vs 'katten'. Is it a gender rule? Why isnt it 'et' kat?
It is gender, but the assignment of gender seems very arbitrary in modern Danish. This discussion post here explains the rules that do exist well, but a lot of words just have to have the gender remembered with the word
Umm. Are you a native speaker or did you learnt all this from duolingo or somewhere else? Help! :-)
I'm not a native speaker, but I learnt it all from a text book, real life and a bit from Duolingo
You need to remember the structure they've been applying when translating to English: Do/does [someome] do [something]? It's mean to teach how in Danish the verb comes first (the inversion), not a literal translation.
Because it's askeing a question: Do the cats drink/are drinking water? Your answer is an affirmation: The cats drink/are drinking water.