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- "Haben wir auch seine Bücher?"
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Im native english speaker and i put this for the answer, duo marked it wrong.
American English is my mother tongue. I also used this word order ("Do we have his books also?") as it sounds most natural and clear (i.e. Do we have his books in addition to other things?). DL disallowed that answer. "Do we ALSO have his books?" seems to imply that some more of "his books" may be in the possession of others," which to me is saying something different from the original German sentence. Please explain.
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As a native English speaker, I can confidently say that that would not be said. There's probably a specific, linguistic reason why it's not used, but I am leaving that for some other person to explain. :)
"Have" in this way is used for verbs e.g: "Have you collected the tickets?", "Have you done the homework?", "Have you read his books?"
In case of this lesson, "Have" is not used in terms of specifying "Tense", it is used to specify possesion e.g: "I have the pen", "They have books" etc
i said "have we got his books too?" and it marked it wrong. doesn't it mean the same thing?
"Do we have his books also" is another way of saying the same thing in English
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I am a native speaker and I would have said, "Do we have his books also?" One can say it both ways. Both should be accepted! Duo can be too rigid at times.
why is it not" also" i put --do we have his books also?---it says it has too be "too"??
I would say it depends on where you put the adverb. "Do we also have his books?" or "Do we have his books too?" both sound natural to me, but swapping those words doesn't sound as good in my opinion.
Yep Duo does not like auch translated as also. I know it is a free program but I am getting ticked off by the very naarow way sentences can be translated. It wasn't like this before.......
I put "Have we got his books too", which is perfectly normal English, and it marked me wrong and gave me "Do we've his books too?" That is nothing like any English I've ever heard. I sometimes wonder who translates these things.
I got it wrong, and it replied: 'Do we've his books too?' Is it only me that thinks this is horrible? Like weave guys I mean we don't shorten 'we have' in english
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That sounds really wrong! It tells me "Do we also have his books?", which still sounds a little weird to me!
the traNSLATION IS AMBIGUOUS YOU AND HE CANNOT HAVE HIS BOOKS He and I cannot have the identical physical books
"do we have also his books " is not accepted . for why? - i am not native english speaker
I said "have we his books too" which is the way we would phrase it in our country. So as well as a German test its also an English test half of the time. unfortunately Duolingo is a Grammar N*zi. But then again I understand non native speakers would not know to speak this way, but im sure native english speakers have this problem as I do.
Native English speaker, would never think to say "have we his books". It is not at all idiomatic where I live.
It's not the most common way to construct the sentence but it's a perfectly normal way
Where do you live? I grew up in England & had five years rigorous training in grammar. The use of the auxillary verb "have" is preferred to "do" when not action takes place.
