Sie verbrachten zusammen eine wunderbare Zeit

English Translation

They had a lovely time together.

verbrachten does not equal “Had” ever…

“verbringen” ist just the idiomatic verb that goes with “Zeit”. Many people nowadays say “eine schöne Zeit haben”, but that’s an anglicism.

I’m starting to believe you’re a troll who should not be fed.

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Maybe not a troll but someone who clearly doesn’t understand the perpetual struggle between literal and idiomatic translation.

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I need to start putting the English translation that I’m seeing. I do not believe we see the same ones or you see the one I have changed it too. And that is my fault

I understand what you’re saying about the word but it’s not relevant to the issues I’m seeing. Standby