"Nicht solange wir seine Tochter haben."

[jarluck]

From the ever-popular German for Kidnappers phrasebook

[leftside]

From the same book "Achtung! Ihr Vater ist Liam Neeson. Keine Mission!" :P

[mattjay81]

Taken - a great film. Although I could do without the electricity bit!

[JungleFritz]

God, I thought I was the only one who thought some of DuoLingo's German phrases were kind of creepy... When I run across one like this, I always pause to tweet it for the amusement of my friends :')

[DerSchwarzeUmzug]

a small part of me looks forward to the day i get to use this phrase in German... :/

[JungleFritz]

Some of the phrases DuoLingo uses are of questionable utility :')

[tkj357]

You could also be baby sitting a friend's daughter and choose not to smoke in front of them or something.

[Legostrike3]

that takes the fun out of things

[andy.kenney]

Yep, this is an incredibly important phrase, without it, you simply wouldn't be able to communicate with your German kidnapping buddies!!!

[Soglio]

That sounds ominous. Is it, or does it somehow translate otherwise?

[Menschenkind]

It is. It's just as bad as jarluck assumed.

[Fecow]

Why "Not as long as we have its daughter" is not good?

[Soglio]

In English, the neuter pronoun (its) is never used to refer to people. "Seine Tochter" has to be his daughter--"he" being the father.

[lucysneezum]

Could it also be "Nicht solange wir haben seine Tochter"?

[Karl_k]

"Solange" introduces a subordinate phrase, so you have to put the verb in the last position

[Josh_Squash]

"So long as we don't have his daughter" isn't correct?

[Soglio]

That would be the opposite meaning--containing the idea that we don't have his daughter, rather than the idea that we do.

[tiagao_28]

Coulnd't be: "As long as we don't have his daugther"?