"Er las den Artikel immer wieder."

Translation: He read the article over and over again.

[Fast-Eddy]

'He kept re-reading the article' - should be correct.

[Movonen]

Thank you I was mad confused I was like whaat

[Dave_Ryan]

I translated this as "He always read the article again" and see from the discussion the 'immer wieder' is an idiom.
In that case how would you translate my sentence to differentiate it from the idiomatic form

[loustax]

Snap!

[nailed-barnacle]

Please can we have a little flag to differentiate Duo's thirst for exact transliterations from the occasions where he's being playful and expecting something idiomatic, like this one?
What it says and what it means are two different - though similar - animals.

[Sheriff37]

He READS, but READ

[kpepis]

It's the past form, that's why it's read.

[thegreatmd4]

Oh right

[Naomi845804]

'las' is first and third person singular in Präteritum, i.e. past tense. So 'He read' is appropriate.

[Glenda]

Does "immer" here imply that the action never stopped? If no, why not?

[Katherle]

"Immer" on its own means "always". "Immer wieder" (literally: always again) is an idiomatic expression and means "again and again", "over and over again", etc.

http://goo.gl/apMD6o

[IanCollison]

He read the article over and over again. In England we may also say ' time and time again'. We can do idioms too!!

[esekuquartey]

why isn't he kept reading the article correct?

[Nuthatch940]

It is ambiguous. That doesn't necessarily mean he re-read it repeatedly, it could mean he started reading it, and having paused or thought about it, he continued reading it; or despite being asked to stop, he continued reading it - he didn't have to read it more than once for that statement to be true.

But the original sentence does require the article to be read, re-read and re-read again - it isn't ambiguous.

[prakharrat6]

"He always read the article again?"...why can't we write that??