"Wie lautet das Kennwort?"

Translation: What is the password?

[gewisse]

Lauten isn't a very common verb, and it's not very easy to translate it directly into English. Literally the sentence is something like 'How does the password go?'. There are only a couple of other times I have come across the verb - 'Wie lautet die Addresse?' (What's the address) 'Der Brief lautet, dass...' (The letter says that...).

[Glutexo]

Literally it could mean something like: How does the password sound?

[christian]

Yes.

[jpentland]

There needs to be an explanation for stuff like this. You can't learn by just guessing and then being told youre wrong...

[DoubleFelix]

It works when you're told the correct answer; I got a bunch wrong my first time through and then got them right the second time through. Reading a paragraph explaining what goes where would take even longer, imho. Trial and error is the name of Duolingo's game.

[Mitchos]

I'm not so sure about the construction of this grammatically, can anyone help?

[Levi]

@Mitchos : Hi, what would you like to know about this?