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Edited by David McColl, Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012, 18:08

Im Zoo

A simple enough exercise, what are these animals in English? (Forgive typing - Mindy cat on my knee)

My usual approach is to look up any word in Langenscheidt's Basic German Vocabulary to find out the gender, plural and discover a sample sentence. But most are so simple that they aren't in that dictionary. But they're not simple. The genders aren't easy and the plurals, while better, aren't all that obvious. Hurrah for www, I used BeoLingus, should have used Leo really.

Wie heißen die Tiere auf Englisch?

Im Zoo

das Tier / die Tiere – animal // „In dieser Wohnung darf  man keine Haustiere haben.“
der Löwe / die Löwen – lion // „In diesem kleinen Zoo gibt es keine Löwen.“
der Elefant / die Elefanten // „In Indien werden Elefanten als Arbeitstiere verwendet.“
das Pony / die Ponys
die Giraffe / die Giraffen
der Bär / die Bären
der Tiger, die Tigerin / die Tiger, die Tigerinnen
das Nashorn / die Nashörner ; auch das Rhinozeros / die Rhinozerosse
der Panda / die Pandas
der Pinguin / die Pinguine
der Gorilla / die Gorillas

Dave [440]

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