"Wir sehen die Bäume."

Translation: We see the trees.

[JJ1856]

'We are looking at the trees' was marked wrong. BEOLINGUS online dictionary says 'looking at ' is 'sehen'.

[Carl_Ramrod]

I too would like an explanation for why "We are looking at the trees" is unacceptable.

[GedFarnan]

Looking and seeing two different things.

[mrdeanvincent]

I'm not sure about German but in English 'to look' and 'to see' can mean very different things.

[claudia.asaftei]

Sehen = to see. So it sounds more logical to say "we see the trees"

[Ablitzninja]

i think its wrong be cause its we SEE THE TREES not we are looking at the trees JJ1856

[MirindaWer]

The translation is wrong. "Looking at" translates as "ansehen"

[LiamBertra2]

"Ich bin das Lorax, ich spreche für die Bäume!" ... Ist das richtig?

[pianoman7412]

I don't know if y'all know this, but most of the time: German words that are built from "au", the plural usually makes that 'au' into 'a umlaut u'.

[nikhil_v]

Ich danke Du, Freund! @Hohenems :)

[Gabe692041]

I get that Bäume is plural but then why was I marked wrong when I translated the sentence as We see the trees. I thought these would be diese, dieser or dies and not die.

[pensionedoff]

I'm having terrible trouble understanding some of the pronunciation.

[Allison261095]

In my opinion, "We are looking at the trees." should be a valid answer.

[Matthias1414]

But "to look at" and "to see" mean different things.

[Sarah851648]

True; "we're looking at the trees" would be "wir sehen die Bäume an" or "wir schauen die Bäume an".

[KogtistiyG]

We see the trees but not the forest...