"Du trinkst Milch und ich trinke Wasser."
Translation:You drink milk and I drink water.
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I t would have been nice if we had been given the conjugation of trinken before having trinkst sprung on us in the test.
The thing is, on the mobile app, that isn't there. Only on the Duolingo website, for whatever reason.
Yes -- when you open a lesson in a web browser, just about every lesson has a page of tips and notes before you actually start the practice.
Mobile apps don't show those, so people who use those are at a huge disadvantage for learning compared to those who have access to the website.
Every one should see this Very very important for who wants to speak German fluency. http://leicht-deutsch-lernen.com/do-not-focus-too-much-on-grammar-rules
I disagree. Learning every new language REQUIRES learning some BASICS! Of course it is not important to master grammar, but if you ignore that simple basics from the start you can never ever progress enough to become fluent at all!
Verb TRINKEN
ich TRINKE
du TRINKST
er/sie TRINKT
wir TRINKEN
ihr TRINKT
sie TRINKEN
German conjugation appears very similar to the archaic English conjugation seen in Shakespeare or the King James Bible:
I drink thou drinkst he/she/it drinketh we drink you drink they drink
ich trinke du trinkst er/sie/es trinkt wir trinken ihr trinkt sie/Sie trinken
No, you can't.
"ß" and "ss" are not interchangeable -- "ß" is used only after long vowels (and dipthongs) and "ss" only after short vowels.
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To build on mizinamo's earlier statement, words that have the ß in their original and formal forms can be substituted with "ss" (for reasons such as Unicode or keyboards lacking the key for the letter), but not vice versa.
I could be super wrong on this, but I read somewhere that it actually originated from "sz." The first half of the letter is an 's' and the second half is like a cursive 'z.' I think I saw that on Quora somewhere.
Yes, it is a ligatur (composition of letters) of the old German s and the old z. But nowadays it is replaced with ss.
Yeah this ß is a double s, but you cant say waßer, it depends if the word has short or long vowel, search a little about it n.n
Do we use "trinkst" when we have "Du" wheares we use "trinkt" when we have have "Er , Sie (she) and Es" ?
You are drinking talked to one person would be : "du trinkst", talked to more then one person it would be: "ihr trinkt", talked to an unknown person it would be: "Sie trinken (Milch?)"
What is the difference between Trinken, Trinkst, Trinke? And where to use which exactly?
To drink is trinken, I drink is ich trinke, you drink is du trinkst, you two (or more) drink is ihr trinkt, but I would say to each unknown person and to the most of my neighbours: Sie (capitalized) trinken. You can use "Sie" almost like the English "you", the same in the singular and in the plural.
A mother says to her son or to her daughter: "Du trinkst ja Milch." To two or more children she says: "Ihr trinkt ja Milch."
It depends on the noun, the verb has a different ending.
Ich - trinke du
du - trinkst
er/sie - trinkt
Wir - trinken
ihr - trinkt
Sie/sie - trinken
With every other question the answer is "we drink" or "i drink" etc... Why is it that this time the answer is "we are drinking" or "they are drinking" etc...?
Both translations are possible, and both are accepted.
German does not distinguish between "we drink" and "we are drinking", etc. -- it only has one present tense, not a separate "present simple" and "present continuous" as in English.
You have to choose the right form depending on the subject. Please read the tips and notes.
For this unit; they're at https://www.duolingo.com/skill/de/Basics-1/tips-and-notes ; in general, go to the website https://www.duolingo.com/ and click on the unit, then on the lightbulb:
Please read the tips and notes before starting each new unit.