"We ontwerpen verschillende kleren."
Translation:We are designing various clothes.
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I'm a native English speaker (US) but have also lived in the UK and I find the terms clothes and clothing interchangeable. I am actually much more likely to use clothing than clothes.
"Various clothing" sounds wrong to me, since "clothing" is singular. However, this might be different in the UK. Any Brits want to comment?
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In this sentence clothing is meant as a group of clothing. ie (shirts, pants, socks) In the US we wouldn't say clothings as it is improper. UK English might be different though...
Yes, I'm aware. What I meant was "various" only sounds correct to me with plural nouns. "Various clothes", "A variety of clothing". However, in the UK they consider many group nouns (like clothing, team, etc) to be plural, so maybe "various clothing" sounds fine to them. Maybe it sounds fine to everyone but me. I will investigate, thanks!
Various clothing would sound odd in the UK too. Various items/articles of clothing, various clothes, a variety of clothes etc.
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Several sounds wrong to me, needs domething like "items of" in it, or something like that. Not really good with the language rules just odd.
yes it's very difficult to understand why I get errors on the use of we/wij, ze/zij and je/jij. Where can I read about the use of the different forms?
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3734337
In moste scenarios you can use both, though if it is a listening exercise only one is accepted because the pronunciation is different.
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We ontwerpen sounded like "Wel ontwerpen* to me. Anyone else hear an L sound?
