Topic: Danish

"Do the cats drink water?"

Translation:Drikker kattene vand?

December 4, 2014

8 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Jutas

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

    January 20, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Xneb
    Mod

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

      January 20, 2015
      https://www.duolingo.com/profile/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?

        September 11, 2015
        https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Xneb
        Mod

          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

          September 11, 2015
          https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Tabyshabz

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

            April 19, 2015
            https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Xneb
            Mod

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

              April 19, 2015
              https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Dane21851

                Kat...

                May 25, 2017
                https://www.duolingo.com/profile/TristanCai3

                  Why is it not drink the cats water?

                  June 12, 2017
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