"Do you have a girlfriend?"

Translation: Hast du eine Freundin?

[semicomatose]

I think Duolingo has a crush on me

[SoftBryan]

Girlfriend? What is that?

A new pokemon?

[Momo.Reza]

Nein

[JohnmarkMe2]

How do you distinguish between a friend, who is either male or female, and a boyfriend or girlfriend in German? I've seen both words mean both things.

[Tanmay1234]

It's ambiguous in german. You'll have to decode the context

[Polish_bookworm]

Maybe just use Partner

[junelac]

Althought unlikely, I think the formal mode (haben sie) could be used

[deactivated user]

I think my answer to this question will contain the word “keine” for a very long time.

[jfnewell]

Haben Sie eine Freundin is wrong?

[BenutzerB]

Should be accepted.

[Pineyblondie]

Haben Sie means do they

[BenutzerB]

Sie with S capitalized is the formal 'you'

[Mazdaman28650]

Probably a stupid question, but where is the gender defined in this question. "Freundin" is friend. If I was translating it from German to English, I would say "do you have a friend?", not knowing where the gender is found.

[siuskitman]

Freund is male friend, Freundin is female friend.

[bayzh]

freundin can also mean female friend, right?

[Ragova]

i used formal and it classed it as wrong :(

[Danmoller]

What about a boyfriend? I won't ask that question...

[pfcansp]

This is what I wrote

[Don2077]

Yeah, you

[searchhagaoni]

Haste should be accepted in my opinion since it combines Hast and du and natives say it that way.

[vicapow]

Why isn't "Du hast eine Freundin" a possibility?

[atamur]

"Du hast eine Freundin" is a statement, not a question

[Mazdaman28650]

This is a question, "do you have a girlfriend?".

[kirstinmjkeller]

To make something a question in German (usually), rearrange the sentence and place the verb first, so: "Hast du eine Freundin?" Literally, "have you a friend?"
Germans don't deal with the word "Do" literally. Its not what we are used to in English.. lol

[iskco34]

Neither do the French I don't think. Do you have a friend would be Est-ce que tu as un ami?

[kirstinmjkeller]

I studied French for a semester and was able to start noticing that as well!

[amessen2]

Along with what others have said previously, phrasing the sentence as you did and adding a question mark sounds more like you are in disbelief that someone has a girlfriend. ("Do you have a girlfriend?" verses "You have a girlfriend?")

[nickkell]

I was surprised to see this in a section on numbers...Maybe the question should be how many girlfriends do you have?

[fetida603]

Warum nicht "Mädel"? Ich dachte "girlfriend" ist mehr mit Liebe, kein Freundschaft