"Wir schlafen."

Translation: We are sleeping.

[EinenHund]

this is a bit funny. How can we say 'we are asleep' when we are asleep?

[winnerrmad]

Maybe "Hey! Stop making noise! We are sleeping!" is one of the possible circumstances.

[nand_bap]

Oh, that makes a lot of sense!

[di3tc0ke]

I translated the sentence as "We sleep". I thought it meant like "We sleep (everyday)".

[mizinamo]

It can mean that, too.

[HeartlessSora]

My thought too. Guess you could put a sign up though... I dunno!

[tonyhurry]

we are sleeping ...in a hotel this week? thats how

[nand_bap]

When I saw that sentence I instantly thought of fantastic fiction! Like maybe a work of fiction where people have collective dreams and interact in them or something like that.

[Henrique_Mazz]

Inception???

[theTisrock]

^Haha! Exactly what I thought. "Hey guys, I'm sleeping so keep it down" Ummm... no you're not.

[Nyagret]

Wir schlafen gemeinsen.

[somethinGr8nic]

I said we are asleep and it counted it wrong but why

[AhmedH5]

Please someone put the conjugations of this verb here

[Juanc30]

Verb: Schlafen
Ich schlafe
Du schläfst
Er/sie/es schläft
Wir schlafe
Ihr schlaft
Sie schlafen
sie schlafen

[g1hodg]

Wir schlafen*

[Juanc30]

Yeah! Sorry.

[mcampbell]

verbix.com is a good site for conjugations.

[skdjfhgkjh]

Apparently not.

[AndrewLeung1]

My girlfriend and my best friend: "Wir schlafen"

Me: In ordnung ;(

[JackRinne49]

Together?

[Majidfakhar]

I can accept that some sleeping people say together: Wir schlafen. But how they can pronounce it correctly?

[alex_tv80]

Wir schlafen und lernen.

[Glamorous_Black]

Why isn't there an umlaut?

[Kailee829]

Neither 'wir' or 'schlafen' need umlauts.

[Elon_the_Hittite]

Sorry for the correction but that should be: 'neither 'wir' nor 'schlafen' needs an umlaut. Furthermore, it would be impossible for 'wir' to have one, though theoretically possible for 'schlafen'.

[mizinamo]

ẅïr scḧläfën :)

[banana3457]

Would Ich schlafen be I am sleeping or would that be the wrong conjugation?

[Girlcatlove1524]

It would be 'Ich schalfe" as the ending varies between the subjects. As for your question, it would translate to I am sleeping, so yes.

[MartinvanEls]

what is wrong with my prononciation?
I said two times "schlafen" and you do not recognise that !!!! I was born and raised close to the German border. You tell me what is wrong with my prononciation !!!!

[isteinvids]

why isn't it "Wir sind schlafen"?

[mizinamo]

Because German doesn't have a continuous aspect formed with the verb "to be", the way English does.

[grey236]

How do you know when to put an umlaut?

[mizinamo]

Some verbs change their vowel in the the du and er, sie, es forms.

You just have to learn which verbs those are and what the change is.

For example, laufen has er läuft (with umlaut) but kaufen has er kauft (no umlaut).

And geben has er gibt (e goes to i) but lesen has er liest (e goes to ie).

The other forms - ich, wir, ihr, sie/Sie - don't have umlaut or other vowel change.

[Corinnebelle]

It sounds like we are laughing! Funny when you're asleep!

[RCu5g5]

I could not tell which one to use

[sakura_7]

There is no (are) in my choices only- ('re) . I may never get out of this exercise if the word (are) does not become a choice in this exercise.

[oivanquintero91]

The progressive present and the present are the same in German, so "WIR SCHLAFE" can also mean we are sleeping. I don't know why it was incorrect

[mizinamo]

The progressive present and the present are the same in German

That's right.

so "WIR SCHLAFE" can also mean

It can't mean anything at all.

The -e verb ending goes with the subject ihr.

The subject wir takes verb forms ending in -en.

wir schlafen would be correct for "we sleep" or "we are sleeping".

And both of those translations are accepted here for a translation exercise.

Do you have a screenshot of "we are sleeping" being rejected in a translation exercise?