"Do the cats drink water?"

Translation: Drikker kattene vand?

[Jutas]

the word "cats" in danish,somebody please?without the "the".:)

[Xneb]

en kat (a cat), katten (the cat), flere katte (several cats), alle kattene (all the cats)

[Christina18189]

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?

[Xneb]

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

[Tabyshabz]

Umm. Are you a native speaker or did you learnt all this from duolingo or somewhere else? Help! :-)

[Xneb]

I'm not a native speaker, but I learnt it all from a text book, real life and a bit from Duolingo

[Dane21851]

Kat...

[TristanCai3]

Why is it not drink the cats water?

[ra.mrn]

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.

[DrewRichar842130]

Why is it not "Kattene drikker vand?"

[ra.mrn]

Because it's askeing a question: Do the cats drink/are drinking water? Your answer is an affirmation: The cats drink/are drinking water.