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I was reading this https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3088733/When-does-Ihr-go-from-her-to-your-or-their and found the Dog example:

Mein Hund isst ihr Brot

And people translate it as is eating instead of eats

So I was wondering if German language does differentiate these words.

JorgeeFG
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  • Does this help? https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/18861/why-doesn-t-german-have-a-present-continuous-tense – HalvarF May 05 '21 at 16:56
  • @HalvarF Yes, thanks, looks like the term I was searching for is 'present continuous' or 'progressive' – JorgeeFG May 05 '21 at 17:10
  • Mein Hund isst ihr* Brot* is either wrong or a constructio ad sensum at best. Should be *sein Brot* (since der Hund is a masculine noun) or die Hündin if the dog is female. – amadeusamadeus May 05 '21 at 20:34
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    @amadeusamadeus: Not necessarily: Die Kinder sind schon satt und haben Salat und Brot übriggelassen, aber mein Hund isst ihr Brot. – O. R. Mapper May 06 '21 at 06:15
  • These are Germans, so they do everything. You wanna be exact? Be a German. They generally just use more words and more letters. As an answer to the question what my dog is doing, "My dog is eating" translates as "Mein Hund isst gerade", which translates back as "Right now, my dog is eating", so yeah, they do. Don't forget the second 's' in 'isst', otherwise you end up with a hungry straight dog. –  May 06 '21 at 17:55

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