"He greets his family."

Translation: Il reçoit sa famille.

[TheSheepness]

This can also be said as ''Il accueil sa famille'', since the verb ''to greet'' can also be translated to the french verb ''accueillir''. Just something I should point out since it also makes sense in this sentence.

[Sitesurf]

Yes you're right, but you need to write "il accueille".

[jsh]

This is what I put, and it was marked "incorrect".

[TimGaston]

Same here. Incorrect.

[MariaM70]

I wrote "Il accueille sa famille" and that was correct!
Today is 6th of Dec -15.

[GregHullender]

Can recevoir really mean "to greet?" None of the senses in Wordreference amounts to that.

http://www.wordreference.com/fren/recevoir

[Sitesurf]

In some context, yes.

The server greets the guests at the door = Le serveur reçoit/accueille les clients à la porte.

[sslawek]

That to me would be equivalent to "he receives the guests" in english. But would someone in french "reçoit sa famille"?

[Sitesurf]

Yes indeed.

"Recevoir sa famille/des amis" does not just mean "greet" (say hello when they arrive) but entertain them as guests, at a minimum with a nice dinner.

[sslawek]

So it sounds like "saluer sa famille" and "recevoir sa famille" aren't exactly the same thing. I got the exercise wrong because I didn't pick both to mean "he greets his family". Good lesson in the shades of meaning, though.

[AlexisLinguist]

Multidictionnaire de la langue française says that recevoir can also mean accueillir, which in turn means to greet: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/translate/french-english/accueillir. I hope that helps.