"Wir haben Familien."

Translation: We have families.

[Bekir978479]

Impossible to hear Familien. It sounds as Familie. That is the case in the majority of sentences of the male speaker. They are difficult to catch. But May be we should learn to understand all kinds of speech.

[inactive1111]

It says that the correct solution should be "We have family" or "We have families." I put "We have a family" and got it wrong, I know there isn't an "a" in the sentence but it makes it grammatically correct. Is this an error or am I just confused?

[ZSMJ]

Familien is plural, We have a family would be "Wir haben eine Familie"

[inactive1111]

Danke!

[nicolastekar]

yes we know, but sometimes the system accept small mistakes

[Aarav657573]

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[semisara]

How do we know if it's "We have families" versus "We have family"?

[shaybah.de]

family = Familie
families = Familien

[ZsoltIvn]

I think the better is "We have family".

[luisromano_91]

They might not be from the same family, thus each one has it's own family =)

[Aarav657573]

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[Aarav657573]

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[Donnerundblitz]

Und wir haben einen haustier

[DenisWu1]

Can I translate Familien with relatieves?

[Minervas37]

"relatives" translates to "Verwandte" in German. "a relative" = "ein Verwandter"; "the relative" = "Der Verwandte".

"Familie" is only the close family: parents, brothers, sisters

"Verwandte" are all relatives, cousins, great-grandmothers, the emigrated great uncle and so on.

"Verwandtschaft" = "kinship"

[Tom318481]

Pleaso don't kill us!

[RossLarcom]

Families is plural accusative, right? Shouldn't it be 'habe'?

[Minervas37]

The conjugation of the verb has to agree with the subject of the sentence (and the time). The subject is "We" / "Wir".

-> "Wir haben..."

It's just like in English: You say "He has a dog." as well as "He has many dogs."

It simply doesn't matter if the object is singular or plural.

[Tiger5012]

UNVERSTÄNDLICH! Die Stimme sagt "Familie". Bitte korrigieren. Danke

[nicolastekar]

i missed the N at the end of the word familie, incorrect, last question, game over.

[alabdaly89]

An easy way I use is trying to find ein for singular if I didn't find it or der I would put plural

[hannahw014]

That dosnt even make sense

[petorialc]

I think it can be used when two people is having an affair, but one of them tell the other "we have families".

[Minervas37]

Wow, that's not the least bit sinister I thought it was.

I thought that two or more were begging for their lives by saying that they had responsibilities (families to care for).

[Jugurten]

To feed! >:(

[PHScanes]

The hint is wrong

[MegaSpy]

And would that be useful for the people who have already gotten to this stage of (perhaps) failing the question?

And the hint is perfectly correct.

[Juanc30]

Who has more than one family?

[job8223]

The sentence could be between brothers and sisters who have family, not families!

[shaybah.de]

"Familien" is the plural.

[newdoc]

ahhh.. Danke.

[ComboViera]

Why not "We are famelic"?

[jackthebiotic]

Because haben means have.