"Você tem pensado em ter filhos?"

Translation: Have you been thinking about having children?

[Jackie-da-China]

Have you thought about having children?Correct?????

[Lingledingle]

"Thought about" was accepted.

[JCMcGee]

Is the translation somewhere between "thought" and "been thinking"

Thought could suggest once in the past
thinking could suggest continuously from a point in the past

Does this Portuguese tense suggest the translation:

"Have you thought several times in the past about....."

(I know it seems very unlikely that we would use that construction in English....mas....)

[Paulenrique]

Absolulety. More than Duo's suggestion!!

[daniel87359]

Is "Have you been thinking about to have children?" acceptable?

[Paulenrique]

Afaik, you should use "preposition + verb + ing" in English. Is it correct?

[unomundo]

Why no 'sobre'?

[Paulenrique]

To think about = pensar em

[JCMcGee]

It's a bit antiquated but we could say "Thinking on"

"One has been thinking on his future as king of England...."
as Prince Charles may say.

[JaneilsonHD]

it fit to: Você tem pensado sobre ter fihos?

[deactivated user]

Quando pensa, pensar em fazer algo ou pensar em alguém.

https://www.recantodasletras.com.br/gramatica/1765658

[xacparks]

Can someone explain why we use the infinitve "ter" to mean "having"? It seems like we should use "tendo."

[Paulenrique]

Simple rule:

• English: preposition + gerund
• Portuguese: preposition + infinitive.

[AaronDandr]

What is wrong with "Did you think about having children"?

[JaneilsonHD]

The exercise is a continuous action, that happened and still happen. the one you used is in the past only, in portuguese would be "Você pensou sobre ter filhos?"

[WilliamStone1]

my answer is exactly what the computer said was the correct one but it still was listed as incorrect????????????