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I am going back and re learning pronunciations again: is this pronounced like "bah-un"?
No, that isn't correct English. It would have to be 'She has a child'. You can use the word have if you are saying 'She does have a child', but you aren't in this case. I noticed you were learning English. Good luck!
I think you'd say, "Hun har et spædbarn," since it directly translates to "she is having a baby".
You can't translate the sentence directly as it will then have a different meaning. As a native danish speaker, I would translate it this way:
She is having a child = Hun skal have et barn
The way I have translated it, it means that she is awaiting a child (as in she is pregnant). I assume that was what you meant.
Is "har" the verb "have" as in "possess", or does it more broadly include "is associated with" like it does in English?
"She's a child" is marked as correct for some reason. "She" and "has" can't be put together this way.
Yes, they can.
"She's" can be either "she is" or "she has"
but in this case "has" is a possessive. "She's a child" implies she IS a child. "She has had" would be the correct use of "has", since in my logic, it'd be present perfect. I don't think I ever encountered the "She's" as a shortening of "she has"
