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- "Eure Beziehung ist schön."
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What is the difference between "eure" and "deine"? Can you use "deine" here instead?
Eure is yours (plural), which deine is your (singular). In this case, the speaker is addressing two people, not just one.
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Imagine my embarrassment when I typed, "Our relationship is beautiful." I'll never be that foolish again.
I'd like to agree with you on this. But I never realized that Duolingo started to include "idiomatic" as part of their standards for translation, in light of many stylistically dubious "official answers".
If "Eure" stands for possessive plural Yours, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use Beziehungen?
You're talking to two people (second person plural) who have one thing ("Beziehung" feminine singular nominative) so you use the second person plural possessive pronoun "euer" and the feminine singular nominative ending "-e".
Just to make it more complicated, it looks like when "euer" takes an ending it becomes "eur" so you make it "eure".
You can remember the endings for possessive pronouns because they're the same as the endings you use with "ein". (It gets more complicated than that later but for now that trick will work.)
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The answer given " your relationship is pretty" would never be used in English. A better answer would be " your relationship is great"
In one previous sentence schön is translated as "fair" so I don't understand why it cannot be as such in this case.
Fair has multiple meanings in English. The 'fair' that is used in that context is the 'fair' used to describe a beautiful person, eg: 'the fair maiden', this use of 'fair' is to describe ones beauty and originates from the era where it was desirable to have fair skin. You wouldn't use 'fair' in this context with that same meaning.
Schön can mean different (albeit similar) things in different sentences. "The relationship is fair" (when using a translation of schön) would imply that is isn't bad but isn't all that great either. Here, 'schön' implies that is a nice or even beautiful (the word I used that was accepted), so 'fair' just wouldn't fit.
That makes sense in Englsih grammatically, but schön doesn't translate to good very well
well i don't know if it's a mistake... but i tought all this time that schon could be taken as "cute"... and its a shame it doesn't, because its kinda cute to pronounce "schon"
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I thought Beziehung meant relation, as in a relative. Here it means relationship. So which is it, relation or relationship?
in dictionary says that EURE is (f) Fluss , river and not pronoum YOURS correctt is EUER
