Topic: German

"Why are you waiting?"

Translation:Warum wartest du?

July 13, 2017

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Why not 'Warum Sind Sie warten?' as well...

July 13, 2017
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    Warum warten Sie? would be possible, but German does not have a sentence construction like what you wrote.

    July 13, 2017
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      Yep - I guess you tried to form a present continuous, but there are no continuous tenses in German.

      July 13, 2017
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      thanks

      July 14, 2017
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