"Wir essen Kartoffeln."

Translation: We are eating potatoes.

[henrymc1]

Does anyone know a good pneumonic for Karoffeln and potato?

[Siofracat]

Potatoes have a lot of potassium, and the symbol for potassium is K.

[YaelisMich]

Thank you!

[snowguy17]

Kartoffeln starts with what?
Kart.
Cart.
What's sold in a cart?
Potatoes.

[margusoja]

The term is "mnemonic" :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic.
No good hints from me, sorry.

[digodk]

I was really trying to figure out what a lung disease and leraning a language had to do with each other

[Klingo101]

By the way I don't think "leraning" is a word. I think you mean learning. :) henrymc1 is not the only person who makes mistakes, it happens to the best of us.

[Andr3546]

KFC sells potatoes, KFC starts with K.

[Planeodharma]

Brian Wilson actually used a pun in his song Vege-Tables that went "Cart off and (Kartoffeln) sell my vegetables", if that helps anyone remember! :)

[cosmo-pedant]

Planeodharma - ". . . .I love you most of all. . . ."

[minouche.b]

How do we say 'fries' , or 'french fries' ??

[Casey_Schlenker]

When ordering fries/french fries, "kann ich bitte Pommes haben" is how most Germans would say it

[Sarah851648]

Probably. "Fritten" is also quite common, depening on where you are.

[JoseeV64]

Google translate wants to translate "Fritten" from Luxembourgish, not from German. I can understand that they say "Fritten" in Luxembourg, because Belgium is their neighbour: "friet".

[Sarah851648]

That's right, "Fritten" is used close to the Belgian border, in the Rhineland, the Sauerland, and Saarland, for example.

[Combo16]

I think its Pommes frittes

[zaiboot]

Was looking for this

[Humberto551064]

These kind of things is what most of us need

[EvanKopczyk]

How come "Wir sind" is not used if the english translation is "We are"?

[JoseeV64]

Why is there a need for a continuous form in English? This form does not exist in German. "Wir essen" means both "we eat" and "we are eating".

[bsjyoutube]

I put we are eating potatos thats wrong

[gufinoverde]

Dan Quayle's spelling

[Mor944689]

why is it sound like the singular word "Kartoffel"? It's sound like they aren't saying the "n" in the end of the plural word

[linguistkris]

Huh? How is "we're eating potatoes" counted as a typo? What else would be the point of offering a "'re" tile? It's not like there could be any different German translation for "We are eating potatoes" than for "We're eating potatoes" since there is no way to abbreviate the verb in German here.

[karrouj]

The voice wasn't well hearable

[Lukas741923]

Is there an way to tell how a word will end when its plural. Like how can you tell if it ends with an 'e' 'en' or 'n'? Or is it just like the gender of words and it has no rhyme or reason?

[Zeke760277]

Potato

[JoseeV64]

Potatoes because "Kartoffeln" is plural.

[whiplaxx]

I still don't get how am I supposed to know "am/are eating" from "eat".

[linguistkris]

You really can't. Unless you were given "wir essen gerade Kartoffeln" (or dialectal "wir sind am Essen", German simply doesn't do a present continuous.
This is a bit of an ongoing puzzle to me since Duolingo switched from mandatory "type in the translation" to "click on the matching tiles". Basically before I start on any given exercise, I first locate the verb and check if it is in the -ing form so I know what kind of sentence I have to construct. It seems to me the choice of the English translation is quite arbitrary; I haven't spotted any system behind when it's simple present and when it' s continuous.

[AnitaBelak]

Omg

[IronBlossom]

Has anyone noticed the pronunciation is the same as the singular Kartoffel, or is it just me?

[JoseeV64]

Indeed. The TTS is bad. The final n is barely audible, but is usually pronounced.