"The trees have apples."

Translation: Die Bäume haben Äpfel.

[GeoSchribs]

It is more common to say: "Die Bäume tragen Äpfel."

[Puett]

Exactly! Both the English and the German phrase are very awkward and not used in everyday speech!

[erikwingard]

It told me "Die Bäume tragen Äpfel". Suppose that is an option too.

[JakaJerala]

Äpfel oder äpfeln?
What is the difference?

[yashviTyagi001]

Äpfeln is in akkusativ case

[Jimmy_jenk1ns]

don't apples mean Äpfeln?

[ValG943232]

in the Akkusativ case, yes

[Edelweisszh]

And isn't "haben" a verb used with Akkusativ?

[Katherle]

Yes, it is. In the sentence "Die Bäume haben Äpfel", "Äpfel" is in the accusative case.

PS: An "n" is added in the dative plural, not in the accusative plural as someone else wrote.

accusative/nominative/genitive plural: Äpfel

dative plural: Äpfeln

[BradleyBass]

Wtf? As if the language wasn't hard enough

[ArdellWood]

Why is it haben and not habt?

[Katherle]

The forms of German verbs change depending on the subject. You can see remnants of this in English, e.g. "I have", but "he has".

haben (to have)

ich habe (I have)

du hast (you [singular informal] have)

er/sie/es hat (he/she/it has)

wir haben (we have)

ihr habt (you [plural informal] have)

sie/Sie haben (they/you [formal] have)

"habt" is used with "you" [plural informal]. "Die Bäume" (the trees) can't be replaced with "you", but they can be replaced with "they". Therefore you have to use "haben" and not "habt".

Having said that, the whole sentence sounds a bit odd to me.

[NathanG200605]

I noticed that Bäume is pronounced "boy-may" instead of "bow-may." Is this because of the umlauts?

[MikeMelosh]

Yes, the umlaut changes bow (to bend at the waist) to boy so a Baum (bowm) becomes Bäume (BOY ma [really a schwa and not short a]).

[cjlazaretti]

I entered "Die Baeume haben Aepfel" as an answer. Duolingo marks it as a typo, and suggests "Die Baeume haben Äpfel." Is there any reason "Baeume" would be correct, but "Aepfel" would not?

[MikeMelosh]

They are only correct in the crossword puzzle spelling usage which precludes umlauts. Neither is technically correct, but one may have been included in the correct answer database and the other not.

[Bronwyn245985]

My phone keyboard can't do accents so I am always being pulled up on this! Nothing I can do!

[MikeMelosh]

You can access the special diacritical marks via a long press on the letters. OR
You could install a different keyboard on your phone or install added languages to your current keyboard. Default Apple, Samsung, and Android keyboards allow this. Then you can swipe to type words.

[Habiba223973]

The sentence in English is " The trees have appels"...
I wrote it in German like this "Die Baumen haben Apfeln "....
And I got it wrong ...where is the wrong in my sentence ?

[yashviTyagi001]

I too got the same
Its says to write äpfel instead of apfeln

[DerHund15]

What the difference between bäume and bäumen? Why bäumen wrong?

[MikeMelosh]

The needed case is nominative and Bäumen ist dative, I believe.

[Dan272864]

Why is the tree "DER baum", but the trees "DIE baüme"?

[Charlie-Thistle]

When something is plural, you use die, regardless of what gender the singular word is. Plurals always use Die.

[Clouddra]

can you write:

Bäumer hat äpfel

[stumpffa]

I can't type umlauts on my phone.

[avilat12]

if you use iphone, long press on the letter (a for example) would show you all the options there is for the letter, but if not, you can always write "ae" instead of ä and so on