"Hledám dům svých rodičů."

Translation: I am looking for my parents' house.

[dsarkarati]

I wrote " parents' " but the correction showed that I had written " parents ".

[Mariba66]

Yes, same here. And told me I was almost correct. The same happens with these English apostrofes in plural when learning other languages as well.

[garpike]

If you write parent's, however, the answer is rightly rejected, but parents (with no apostrophe) is accepted as correct.
I still can't see any pattern in how Duolingo treats punctuation marks; a little earlier I had an answer in the German course rejected for leaving out a question mark (which has never happened before to me). I wish it were consistent.

[Tom260364]

is still incorrectly marking "parents'" as a typo....that apostrophe is needed

[svrsheque]

tell that to the duo programmers. everybody else appears to know this. :-)

[claudio98_]

What about "family's house"?

[endless_sleeper]

I'd say there's a huge difference between 'family' and 'parents'.

[cricketswool]

Why "dům svých rodičů" rather than "dům rodičů"? Is "svých" optional or required? Would it make a difference if the house were one that the parents owned but didn't live in?

[Rassul14]

It is really parents' house possessive plural

[VladaFu]

yes

[Wilki817855]

Why is "svých" not "their" in this case?

[VladaFu]

Because the subject of the sentence is "I".

[Janmunroe]

Could this also be translated as "I am looking for a house for my parents"? Or would that have to be something like "Hledam dum pro svych rodicu"? Sorry, no accents on keyboard.