"Nós ficamos com nossa família."

Translation: We stay with our family.

[SteampunkRaccoon]

Ohana means family. Family means no one left behind.

[MattBenet]

Or forgotten

[kelii....]

Speaking of that, Hawaiian is in beta here at Duolingo. Give it a try.

[LawrenceEric]

There's that ficar verb again.. Seems to have lots of uses

[DiegoAcost]

<h1>truestory. Certainly gives me a hard time</h1>

[mikocot]

we stay with our family? isnt it perectly the same?

[Paulenrique]

Yes!

[luchomein]

So ''ficar'' also means to spend quality time?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

The verb «ficar» does not imply quality time

[mikocot]

dosn't work, though :D

[luchomein]

so it's nos really used as in english to ''spend time''?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

"to spend time (with someone)" = «passar tempo (com alguém)»

[Daniel535983]

Is ficar kind of like quedar in Spanish, then?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

Exactly!

[senorowl2014]

"Ficar" means "to stay with" or "to remain", not "to spend time with."

[notamonkey]

Also to change into. And slang for 'sleeping' with someone. Let it have this too.

[Coayuco]

I found 24 definitions for "ficar" and "spend time" was not among them. Is this an idiomatic expression?

[Paulenrique]

It may have this meaning, but for this it is more common to use "passar um tempo".

[Coayuco]

Thank you, that's what I had expected.

[aisamova]

Why not "com a nossa família"?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

Either way should be accepted.

[katina.bol]

I do not like how the speaker adds the letter r in words with no r's

[molypanchita]

wait, so can this sentence mean both: we spend time with our family or we stay with our family...depending on context? I was still confused after reading the comments...because to me these are 2 different meanings

[Romulo.Np]

Both are correct.

[Heidijan]

Por que não "remain"?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

Não vejo porque não pode ser. Eu reportá-lo-ia.
Só se o Duolingo achar isso muito formal; isso é equivalente a «Permanecemos com a nossa família.».

[ZibranAhmed]

"Nós ficamos com nossa família" is translated here as "We stay with our family". On another exercise "Nós ficamos com o carro" was translated as "We keep the car". Structurally the two sentences look very similar to me. Yet the verb "ficamos" seems to take two widely different meanings in the two cases. How does one know in what sense "ficamos" is being used in such ambiguous contexts? So if I wanted to say, "We keep our family" in Portuguese, would I still say "Nós ficamos com nossa família", similar to the way we use "ficamos com" to mean "keep" as in the car example? And for "We stay with the car"? Would I say "Nós ficamos com o carro" too?

[luchomein]

So ''ficar'' also means to spend quality time?

[MannuChan]

Ficar means stay =)

[ZuMako8_Momo]

Nós pecamos com nossa família. _.

[peterjoel58]

Could this also mean "we keep our family?"

[JFSPA]

It's very slang, but i'd be tempted to translate this as, "we hang with our family." It's got the same ambiguity of "stay a while with / hang out with / stay around."

[Moli982533]

I wrote "we stayed" and they told me i was wrong, but "ficamos" could be translated as "stayed" I'm pretty sure

[ZuMako8_Momo]

Interesting point. In European Portuguese, the past tense of «-ar» verbs for nós would get an acute accent on the «a»: «ficámos» = "we stayed." In Brazilian Portuguese, «ficamos» couls indeed be present or past tense. Try reporting it next time

[VioletaGot1]

It would be better to say "respective families" if we meant
families as a unit. but when taken collectively as families gathered in an evacuation place with no privacy.