"Ich hoffe, dass es Ihrem Bruder besser geht."

Translation: I hope that your brother is feeling better.

[ozgeakd]

Is "es" necessary here?

[Mapos]

Yes. This is exactly the same thing as the old "wie geht es ihnen?", only we´re talking about your brother instead of you. The sentence in German is "how´s it going for X", so the "es" is as necessary as the "it" in that sentence.

[ozgeakd]

Wow I will sound foolish but I have never paid attention to es in "wie geht es ihnen?" before. :) Maybe it is because I learned that as an idiom.. Thanks a lot! :))

[ran_g]

shouldn't ".. that your brother gets better" be valid as well?

[Danmoller]

I thought that too, but now I think twice. Hope he gets better means he is bad, but I expect that he becomes better.
Is feeling better is already better.

[BillJim]

Yes - how else would you say it?

[manja77]

I am bit confused with "ihrem". Should it not be "her"? And how would one say: "I hope that her brother is feeling better."

[RiverVV]

Capitalized, "Ihrem," it is the formal second-person possessive. To talk about "her" brother, you would simply not capitalize it.

[erinwall]

Why "dass"?

[quis_lib_duo]

Because it is the subordinating conjunction ("daß" = that), not the article ("das").

[erinwall]

Thank you! The difference hadn't even occurred to me.

[Tom-tky]

I think that I hope your brother gets well, should be acceptaable. After all we don't say get better soon. We say get well soon.

[FisherLiz]

We say both. . .

[Edunote93]

Why is "es" right after dass?

[AyhanHocaBolu]

Wpuld "their brother" be wrong?

[SiddharthK1999]

Is this correct too? - "Ich hoffe, dass es besser ihrem bruder geht"

[MaureenFis8]

I am confused that the possessive pronoun is Dative.
The German is : "I hope that it is going better (for) your brother.
I am trying to understand what preposition would be used before 'your brother' and I can only think of 'for' which brings on accusitive.

[rynsmi]

Why would the construction for the subordinating clause not be "...dass Ihrem Bruder es besser geht." This seems more similar to the construction to the typical how-are-you response "Mir geht es gut," where the dative pronoun, "Mir," comes before the nominative pronoun, "es."

[DPan76]

Does "jemandem besser gehen" always refer to recovery from physical sickness, or can it also mean generally "doing better," i.e., with life, stresses, etc.?

[Tom_Moswen]

i hope that it is going better with your brother. Why is this wrong?

[maxcampbell01]

I think "I hope that it gets better for your brother" should be acceptable. It's one word away from passing: "I hope that it GOES better for your brother."

[bruno.grgi]

I never heard anything like that in English language. You simply do not translate sentences word by word.